Lucknow: It was high drama in Lucknow on Thursday as the Samajwadi Party workers created a ruckus after Akhilesh Yadav's oath-taking ceremony. Despite promises to restore law and order, several ministers with criminal records were sworn into the new Cabinet as well. Another surprising element of the oath-taking ceremony was that even the common friend of Mayawati and Mulayam, Ponty chadha's son, was also there. Later, over enthusiastic Samajwadi Party...
06:42 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday took his oath to office in Lucknow to become the youngest Chief Minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh. A total of 47 ministers have sworn in, including 19 Cabinet ministers and 28 MOS, along with Akhilesh Yadav. Akhilesh led his party to win 224 seats in the Assembly Elections. "Samajwadi Party will fulfill promises made in the manifesto. Law and...
11:48 AM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav will take charge on Thursday as the youngest Chief Minister of India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh will take his oath to office in Lucknow. Akhileshs father Mulayam Singh Yadav has indicated that the cabinet will be a small one, with his uncle Shivpal Yadav and Azam Khan the Samajwadi Party's Muslim face being given key portfolios. Both leaders will also be sworn-in...
06:16 AM, Mar 15, 2012
Lucknow: Making her move to national politics after electoral debacle of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh, party chief and outgoing Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday filed her nomination for a Raya Sabha seat. Mayawati said being in Delhi will help her focus more on UP's problems and concentrate on the 2014 General Elections. The BSP won 80 seats in the recent UP election, which makes it eligible...
12:43 PM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister-designate and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav is expected to meet senior Left Front leaders in New Delhi on Tuesday, adding to speculation of the formation of a Third Front. Akhilesh is scheduled to go to the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M)) office to invite party General Secretary Prakash Karat for his swearing-in ceremony in Lucknow on March 15. Akhilesh will also meet Communist Party...
11:03 AM, Mar 13, 2012
New Delhi: Sanjay Singh, Congress MP from Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, has been asked to explain his comments on the party's performance in the state's Assembly election. Sanjay Singh had claimed that internal sabotage was to blame for the Congress's poor show in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections while coming down heavily on the party's strategy. He had also pointed out that the party had favoured tickets to those who came...
02:46 PM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Monday backed the idea of Third Front and said it was a good step for India. "Third Front is a good step for the country, but for SP Uttar Pradesh is the priority," Akhilesh Yadav said. This came a day after party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said there were no talks of Third Front yet. Akhilesh Yadav, who is all set to...
10:55 AM, Mar 12, 2012
New Delhi: The RSS has slammed the BJP leadership for its poor performance in the recently concluded Assembly Elections. In its mouthpiece the Organiser, the Sangh said lack of leadership was the cause of the BJP's defeat in Uttar Pradesh. It said that the BJP could have doubled its tally if it had projected a leader of good standing in Uttar Pradesh. The RSS endorsed Narendra Modi by saying the...
06:17 AM, Mar 12, 2012
Anna had made a solid dent in Rahul's image. New York Times wrote on 28 August 2011, 'For Mr Gandhi, the crisis interrupted what was widely assumed to be his own coming out as the new leader of the Congress . . . Instead, Mr Hazare upended the political landscape and Mr Gandhi disappeared for days before his speech in Parliament.' There can't be a bigger setback for Rahul Gandhi...
12:01 AM, Mar 12, 2012
Lucknow: Chief Minister-designate Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said his priority will be to steer Uttar Pradesh on the path of development and fulfil the aspirations of people who have reposed faith in Samajwadi Party. Parrying questions whether SP was trying to forge a third front as it was emerging as a big party which could play a major role at the Centre, he said, "People have expressed faith in our...
10:40 PM, Mar 11, 2012
New Delhi: Holding that the BJP is suffering from "Congress patch" in UP, the RSS has said it will be difficult for the saffron party, which has a "bigger army of leaders than workers" in the state, to come to power in 2014 Lok Sabha elections unless it answers the questions posed by Assembly poll results. In the editorials of its mouthpieces Organiser and Panchjanya, the Sangh asked the BJP...
07:43 PM, Mar 11, 2012
New Delhi: Even as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will not attend Akhilesh Yadav's swearing in ceremony, Samajwadi supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav is still keen on using the event as a possible show of strength. He has invited several other Chief Ministers and leaders who could possibly be involved in the formation of a third front, sources say. Mulayam Singh Yadav, however, has dismissed any talks of a third...
05:20 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, whose party is an UPA ally but has made common cause with non-Congress Chief Ministers on some issues, is likely to attend the oath-taking ceremonies of Parkash Singh Badal and Akhilesh Yadav as chief ministers of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. "I will try to attend the swearing-in ceremonies" of Badal and Yadav, Mamata, West Bengal Chief Minister, told in an SMS response. While Badal...
12:33 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Kolkata: Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who had first remarked on the potential he evinced in Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav's son Akhilesh Yadav, on Saturday expressed happiness at the young leader being all set to take over as Uttar Pradesh chief minister. With a virtual euphoria sweeping Uttar Pradesh following the election of the 38-year-old political heir of Mulayam Singh as legislative party leader, Chatterjee said Indian...
12:02 AM, Mar 11, 2012
Lucknow: The strength of the Akhilesh Yadav ministry will be small and initially 10 to 15 Samajwadi Party leaders are likely to be inducted as ministers, party sources said on Saturday. The names of Shivpal Singh Yadav, brother of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, and party's Muslim face Mohammad Azam are doing the rounds for ministerial berths. Other probable candidates for ministeral berths are youth leader Abhishek Mishra, who romped...
09:36 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: BSP Chief Mayawati is now planning to quit as MLC and would seek a Rajya Sabha nomination. Sources said that this was decided after she met party MLAs and MPs on Saturday in Lucknow. She has called a two-day meeting of party members. Mayawati will meet all office bearers and zonal coordinators on Sunday. The agenda of the meet will be to discuss the reasons of the poll...
08:49 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party has formally named Akhilesh Yadav as its Chief Minister for Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh met Uttar Pradesh Governor BL Joshi and formally staked claim to form the government. Cometh the hour and cometh the man, Akhilesh 38 years of age has become the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, elected unanimously by 225 Samajwadi Party MLAs as the leader of the legislature party. It all went according...
07:20 PM, Mar 10, 2012
New Delhi: Akhilesh Yadav, son of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Mulayam Singh, was on Saturday named the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh by his party's lawmakers. Akhilesh, 38, was nominated to the top post by SP legislators at a meeting in Lucknow. He will be the youngest chief minister of the country's most populous state. Akhilesh met the Uttar Pradesh Governor later and staked claim to form the government....
07:01 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Lucknow: Akhilesh Yadav, who scripted the Samajwadi Party's spectacular victory in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, is seen as its modern face who gave it an image makeover. Samajwadi Party led by Mulayam Singh Yadav was always seen as a party of the old mindset in a state whose politics is dominated by caste and religious issues. With his father said to be not in the best of health,...
01:54 PM, Mar 10, 2012
Lucknow: Akhilesh Yadav, after being chosen to be the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, thanked the people of the state for giving an opportunity to the Samajwadi Party in the Assembly Elections 2012. Speaking exclusively to CNN-IBN, Akhilesh said that he was given a big responsibility. He said, "I will work to come up to the expectations of our seniors in the party." "I will work with the party...
01:40 PM, Mar 10, 2012
