SAMAJWADI PARTY

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 […]

NEW DELHI: Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party chief Shivpal Singh Yadav on Saturday attacked his nephew and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh for supporting Yashwant Sinha for President’s post. In a statement, Shivpal, who was once a number 2 in the SP but lost the succession battle to Akhilesh, criticised the latter for supporting Sinha who once called […]

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party founder and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav’s wife Sadhna Yadav on Saturday died at a private hospital in Harayana’s Gurugram. Samajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary in a statement condoled the death of the party founder’s wife and said that Sadhna Yadav breathed her last at the Medanta Hospital in […]

  LUCKNOW/DELHI: The Samajwadi Party on Friday sought to project a united face as it called leaders from as far as southern states on the occasion of birthday of its party president and former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav. Senior party leaders including state unit presidents from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Rajasthan gathered at […]

NEW DELHI: At a seemingly show of an anti-BJP front, in a throwback to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and in its run-up when the regional giants had stitched up a combine at the swearing-in of the JDS-Congress-BSP alliance in Karnataka, Mamata Banerjee convinced a galaxy of Opposition leaders to propose Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s […]

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 […]

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 […]