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NOIDA: Member of the Legislative Council Swamy Prasad Maurya faces heat as Gautam Buddh Nagar Commissioner of Police said that it was the former minister who provided abuser Shrikant Tyagi with stickers of MLA to paste on his vehicles. A video of Tyagi abusing and manhandling a woman resident of Grand Omaxe Society went viral […]

ETAWAH: Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party chief Shivpal Singh Yadav is set to address media persons in Lucknow on Monday, two days after ally Samajwadi Party said he is “free” to leave the alliance.   In a letter on Saturday, SP said Shivpal was “free to go wherever he gets more respect”. Shivpal is likely to reply […]

LUCKNOW: The cracks in the Opposition unity in UP came wide open on Saturday, with Samajwadi Party telling its coalition partners OP Rajbhar and Shivpal Yadav that they are free to join the side that gives them “more respect”. In separate letters to Rajbhar and Shivpal, the Akhilesh Yadav-led party said, “If you feel that you will get […]

NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday accorded Y category security to Samajwadi Party ally Om Prakash Rajbhar, who is the national president of Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP). Rajbhar is an MLA from Zahoorabad Constituency in the Ghazipur district of eastern Uttar Pradesh. The SBSP has six MLAs in the assembly. Although still […]

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party has fielded former Minister Swami Prasad Maurya and three other leaders for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council (LC) elections. All the four leaders filed their nomination papers on Wednesday in presence of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav for the Legislative Council elections scheduled on June 20. Besides Akhilesh Yadav, party MLA […]

LUCKNOW: In a clear sign of the growing rift with the Samajwadi Party, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party chief Shivpal Singh Yadav on Wednesday said that his party will contest local elections on its own. While addressing the party’s one day workshop here, Shivpal said that Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party “will fight the upcoming local body elections on […]

LUCKNOW: Upping the ante against Yogi Adityanath’s government in Uttar Pradesh over the law and order situation, Samajwadi Party has decided to send one delegation to Kannauj to meet the family members of a 10-year old girl who was murdered after the alleged rape. Interestingly, Kannauj was the parliamentary constituency of the Samajwadi Party chief […]

  NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and senior party leader Azam Khan resigned as a member of Lok Sabha on Tuesday, days after they won the recently-concluded assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. While Yadav won the assembly election from his family pocket borough of Karhal in Mainpuri, Khan, who is in jail on […]

LUCKNOW: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) got a massive victory in Uttar Pradesh for a second consecutive term because people had started fearing the Samajwadi Party activists who threatened people and engaged in hooliganism openly, Union Minister Kaushal Kishore said on Friday. Speaking to The New Indian here, Kishore said Akhilesh Yadav’s party will meet […]

New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Uttar Pradesh polls, we look at 5 big takeaways from the result that will shape Indian politics in the days to come: 1) The triumph of ‘Rashan’ and ‘Sushasan’ (Ration and Good Governance): During the elections, two biggest factors for the people were law and order […]