Speaking during a video interaction with Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana beneficiaries from Madhya Pradesh, he also said that there was 'vikriti' (distortion) in the system of the previous government.
Terming the Mayawati government as "most insensitive and barbaric", Union Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal on Friday said the Bahujan Samaj Party regime has surpassed the previous Mulayam Singh Yadav government on this count.
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This follows a seven-day sustained campaign by farmers against the acquisition of 121 hectares of land in Katesar village in the district, about 325 km from Lucknow for building 'New Kashi' city as a parallel to Varanasi.
Unfazed by the attack on his claims on the alleged police brutality in the villages of Greater Noida, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday appeared to justify those remarks saying people there had complained to him about the atrocities they were subjected to.
Blaming Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for the violence over land acquisition in Noida and adjoining areas, Samajwadi Party on Monday alleged that the Bahujan Samaj Party government had ignored farmers' interests while taking over their land.
Dhoni's wife Sakshi wrote an emotional post on Instagram, congratulating her man on what he achieved in his career and for always giving his best to the game.
Expressing shock at volleyball player Arunima Sinha being thrown out of a train in Bareilly, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday held both Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati responsible for the incident.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday took her officials by surprise when she chose to suddenly return from her tour of certain districts well before schedule to undertake an inspection of various public services in state capital Lucknow.
More than 20 months after Bhartiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Varun Gandhi spewed communal venom during his election campaign in Pilibhit, the Uttar Pradesh government on Friday gave its mandatory sanction for his prosecution.
"I have lost more than I have ever lost in 16 years. I have started shedding ethnicity like hair: Mother, I fear I'll go bald," Maya concluded her poem to loud applause.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday charged the Centre with misusing the Central Bureau of Investigation against her in the disproportionate assets case.
Reacting to Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's apology to Muslims for tying up with those responsible for Babri demolition, his political rivals on Thursday termed it opportunism and a gimmick to gain mileage ahead of the next assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.
'You write stories about the world you live in.' 'The day I try to write a film with agendas in mind, I will be a fake.'
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Wednesday shocked the Rajya Sabha by telling Chairman Hamid Ansari that he is "not seen" in the House in the afternoon after which the House is not allowed to function.
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Describing Mayawati as a "living goddess", the ruling BSP in Uttar Pradesh, facing a hail of criticism over the garland issue, says it will continue to weigh its party supremo in gold and silver.
The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation seeking a CBI probe into alleged expenses of about Rs 200 crore, including the Rs 5 crore garland worn by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati during a recent BSP rally.
Four school students were arrested for allegedly smearing colour on posters of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati during Holi, and a local court in Lucknow on Wednesday freed them on bail even as she chided the police for taking such harsh action for a 'petty mistake'.
The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, who was leading a protest in Lucknow against price rise.The police also baton charged the Samajwadi supporters, who had turned up in large numbers to accompany their chief.
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'These accusations of my film being a copy only makes our chances at the Academy harder.'
Siddiqui claimed that he had enough material to cause an 'earthquake'.
From invoking the 'Saptarishi' (Ursa Major) constellation, seven basic notes of Indian classical music to 'saat phere' (seven circumambulations) -- parties give different reasons and logic to claim that they will emerge victorious in the polls.
'Ruksana affected me very deeply.' 'It was the circumstances around her that changed her in various ways.' 'Of course, I carry her back home, hoping and praying from the bottom of my heart that nobody ever has to be in this situation.'
While Monday's Supreme Court order reinstating 18,000 dismissed Uttar Pradesh policemen came as a bolt from the blue for Chief Minister Mayawati, it has left her predecessor and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav all pepped up as the recruitments were made during his regime.
Political observers feel that Kodnani's arrest will help the Bharatiya Janata Party project a more 'secular and fair' image.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's birthday on Thursday escalated political activity in the state as both ruling party and opposition activists took to the streets to stress their respective points. It was a day of unique demonstrations by each of the four key political parties -- the Samajwadi Party, Bhartiya Janata Party, the Congress and to top it all the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party.
She also vowed to waive farmers' loans up to Rs 1 lakh per head.
"Until now, the Congress was completely against the current government. Now they have also joined hands overnight. This goes to show how honest their intentions are," he added, taking a swing at the alliance.
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Accusing Jairam of making a mountain out of a molehill, she has sought to draw the prime minister's attention to the minister's bid to generalise some information.
Terming Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani's yatra a "political gimmick", Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday said the exercise was aimed to promote himself as the party's prime ministerial candidate.
Bahujan Samaj Party president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday suspended party MLA Jitendra Kumar Siingh Babloo, who happened to be the twelfth party legislator to be sacked by her over the past four years that she has been in power in the country's most populous state.
The court dismissed the last-ditch appeal by his mother, saying Dharmalingam has been given "due process in accordance with the law".
The Centre has put the proposed Rs 3,500-crore global airport hub at Noida in Uttar Pradesh into cold storage and the ambitious project would not be able to keep its date with the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has alleged that Mayawati 'camouflaged' various sources of funds to the tune of Rs 13.18 crore by naming over 130 people as 'donors', who did not have money to make their daily ends meet. The premier investigating agency, in its counter-affidavit to the Supreme Court, said the facts come to light after income tax returns of Mayawati and her family members were collected and scrutinised.
Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel China Room, alongside Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers.
The Mayawati government on Tuesday withdrew permission granted for a grand show to promote Big 'B' starrer 'Aarakshan', for which the millennium star Amitabh Bachchan and his co stars Deepika Padukone, Manoj Bajpai and Prateek Babbar were to arrive in Lucknow on Wednesday.
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