
BSP Chief Mayawati has said her party will reveal its choice of Presidential candidate once nominations are filed by the UPA and the NDA. ...

02:48 PM, May 19, 2012

Former UP chief minister Mayawati has hit out at the ruling Samajwadi Party, saying that her party is ready for an unbiased probe. ...

02:01 PM, May 19, 2012

Lucknow: Alleging a serious threat to the life of party supremo Mayawati, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Friday trained its guns on the Congress-led UPA government and said that if something wrong happened to their leader, the union government would be responsible for it. Addressing a press conference, the BSP's state president and leader of opposition Swamy Prasad Maurya said the state and union governments had ganged up against...

06:50 PM, May 04, 2012

Ambedkar Nagar: There was more violence reported in Uttar Pradesh after the Samajwadi Party swept to power. SP and BSP workers clashed in Ambedkar Nagar on Thursday. Former BSP minister Ram Achal Rajbhar's son took to open firing on SP workers and the SP workers retaliated. The rice mill of Rajbhar was allegedly burnt down by SP workers. ...

07:54 PM, Mar 08, 2012

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh may have to wait for a while as to know who will be the next chief minister - Mulayam Singh Yadav or Akhilesh - after the Samajwadi Party decided to take the all-important decision after Holi. Sources said that the Samajwadi Party's legislative will meet after Holi to decide on the post heir. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Akhilesh said, "No decision yet on who will be the...

01:48 PM, Mar 07, 2012

Rampur: The Uttar Pradesh Police carried out a raid on actress-turned-politician Jayaprada when she was at a hotel in Rampur on Thursday. The police claimed it was a routine check to see whether she and others like her had illegally stocked up cash. The former actress, however, said all the complaints against her were fake. "These are fake complaints against me. The police came yesterday also. I am not fighting...

10:12 AM, Mar 02, 2012

Mau (UP): Accusing the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government in Uttar Pradesh of being involved in land-grabbing, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said the Mayawati-led regime was involved in scams of over Rs 40,000 crore. "The present BSP government in the state is involved in land-grabbing and corruption cases. The Mayawati-led government has committed scams of over Rs 40,000 crore," Yadav said while addressing an election meeting...

02:22 PM, Feb 06, 2012

Muktsar: Continuing her tour rally in Punjab, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday addressed a rally in Muktsar. Addressing the crowds gathered at the venue, Mayawati said the Congress, the BJP and the Samajwadi Party should not be voted back to power as they had failed to keep their promises. The BSP is contesting the Punjab polls again on its own, despite facing...

04:02 PM, Jan 22, 2012

Lucknow: The state of UP's health has been exposed by a CAG audit of the National Rural Health Mission. The final report, which is yet to be tabled in the UP Assembly, was submitted to the governor on Friday. The CAG has exposed some shocking details. According to it, over Rs 5700 crore are unaccounted for in the six-year audit period from 2005 to 2011. During this period, purchases were...

09:18 PM, Jan 21, 2012

Nawashahr: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati took on the Congress on Saturday while addressing a rally in Nawashahr, Punjab. She attacked the UPA government for apparently not doing enough to curb price rise. She blamed the central government's policies for the spiralling rise in prices saying that the "wrong policies" of the UPA government "adversely affected the common man". Countering the Congress' allegation regarding her recent ministerial sacking campaign, that...

05:24 PM, Jan 21, 2012

BSP MLA Jallel Khan broke down after he was not given an Assembly ticket. Slighted, the Gonda MLA has now decided to contest as an Independent candidate - claiming he has the support of the public. ...

02:34 PM, Jan 17, 2012

Lucknow: Cutting across party lines, senior leaders have trusted their family members over party workers for contesting the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls apparently in a bid to carry forward their political legacy. The trend has caught on not only with parties like the Congress, BJP and SP, but also BSP which has in the past claimed that it was a cadre-based party and had been targeting other parties for their...

02:03 PM, Jan 17, 2012

Lucknow: The UP Assembly polls will see a sprinkling of star dust with political parties planning to rope in a bevy of Bollywood personalities to canvass for them. Though all political parties have lined up some campaigners from Bollywood, newly-floated Bundelkhand Congress seems to be the front-runner in terms of "star appeal". Actor-turned-politician and president of Bundelkhand Congress Raja Bundela is also roping in local artists from the region. Actors...

11:43 AM, Jan 17, 2012

Lucknow: Under attack from opposition parties over the corruption issue and to present a clean image before voters, the BSP has denied tickets to nearly half of its sitting MLAs for the coming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. "The party has dropped around 100 sitting MLAs, including ministers, from its list of candidates released by party supremo Mayawati yesterday," a senior party functionary said. An indication that several sitting MLAs may...

03:04 PM, Jan 16, 2012