Bareilly: Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday said that with BJP leader Uma Bharti jumping into the electoral fray in Uttar Pradesh, infighting will increase among the chief ministerial aspirants in her party. He said Uma's entry from Charkari in Bundelkhand region would not affect Congress and BJP leaders who are eyeing chief minister's post should be worried about the development. "Uma's presence in UP will increase infighting within BJP....
12:59 AM, Jan 20, 2012
Charkhari (Uttar Pradesh): After targeting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has taken on Bharatiya Janata Party's star campaigner Uma Bharti in the election-bound state. While addressing an election rally in Bundelkhand's Charkhari on Thursday, Rahul Gandhi said that Uma Bharti had never done anything to develop the backward region. "A BJP leader (Uma Bharti) has come from Madhya Pradesh. Where was she when farmers were...
03:32 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Charkhari (Uttar Pradesh): After targeting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has taken on Bharatiya Janata Party's star campaigner Uma Bharti in the election-bound state. While addressing an election rally in Bundelkhand's Charkhari on Thursday, Rahul Gandhi said that Uma Bharti had never done anything to develop the backward region. "A BJP leader (Uma Bharti) has come from Madhya Pradesh. Where was she when farmers were...
03:32 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader Uma Bharti's migration from Madhya Pradesh to Uttar Pradesh is now complete. In a seemingly hasty press conference on Wednesday, the BJP announced her candidature in the UP polls. Uma Bharti will be contesting from Charkhari in Mahoba district of Bundelkhand. With this move, the BJP is attempting to neutralize the Kalyan Singh factor. This region strategically borders Madhya Pradesh. BJP president Nitin Gadkari said she...
08:36 AM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti will contest the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections from the Charkari seat in Bundelkhand. BJP president Nitin Gadkari announced the candidature of the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister for the UP polls. He said that Uma would not just contest the elections but would also be the star campaigner for the party. Speaking about her candidature, Bharti said that she would fulfill...
09:54 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Babri Masjid demolition is just an incident and there is nothing famous or infamous about it, the Supreme Court said on Monday while listing Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) plea for levelling charges of criminal conspiracy against senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray and 18 others to March 27. "What is famous about it. It was an incident which happened...
04:29 PM, Jan 16, 2012
New Delhi: All parties appear to be indulging in competitive politics over Muslims in Uttar Pradesh as the state heads towards assembly polls. While Congress leader Digvijaya Singh once again raked up the 2008 Batla House encounter, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti hit out at the Congress, accusing it of trying to divide the country with quota for Muslims. Congress leader Digvijaya Singh, who was in Azamgarh on...
04:59 PM, Jan 11, 2012
BJP's star campaigner Uma Bharti has played down differences within the party over the inclusion of tainted former BSP MLA Babu Singh Kushwaha. ...
03:43 PM, Jan 07, 2012
New Delhi: There is a storm within the BJP over the induction of tainted leader Babu Singh Kushwaha. First Uma Bharti said she'll stop campaigning, then Gorkahpur MP Yogi Adityanath threatened to quit. Uma Bharti said, "whatever I have to say I will say at the party forum not to the media." Uma Bharati was at her dramatic best making no attempts to quash reports that she was walking out...
08:32 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: The row over Babu Singh Kushwaha's induction into the party is refusing to die down with many senior BJP leaders jumping the bandwagon to criticise the decision in a bid to project the non-corrupt image of the party. While some leaders criticised the moves, other hailed it saying Kushwaha will help in exposing corruption in the Mayawati government. The day saw Uma Bharti fall in line after a...
07:24 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti on Friday issued a clarification on the report that she refused to campaign for the party on the controversy of induction of expelled BSP leader Babu Singh Kushwaha into the party and said will continue to campaign till January 9 as per the schedule. "I will hold rallies till 9th as per schedule and will thereafter take programmes as the party decides," said...
03:35 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: Upset over induction of expelled BSP leader Babu Singh Kushwaha into the party, BJP's key campaigner in Uttar Pradesh Uma Bharti has warned that she will stop campaigning for the party, said party sources. The sources also said, Bharti has threatened that she will not lead the party in Uttar Pradesh, fight elections or campaign in the state if Babu Singh Kushwaha is not removed from the BJP....
12:36 PM, Jan 06, 2012
Lucknow: Protesting the UPA government's proposal of Muslim reservation within the 27 per cent OBC quota, Uttar Pradesh BJP on Saturday said it will hold statewide demonstrations against it on December 27, the day when the Bill would be tabled in Parliament. "The move to provide reservation to minorities is divisive and not in the interest of the country. BJP will protest the move across the country and in the...
03:38 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: BJP leader Uma Bharti will begin her Jal San-rakshan Yatra from Allahabad on Tuesday. This will be second campaign in Uttar Pradesh. She is expected to meet members from the OBC Nishad, Kevat and Kashyap communities while on her yatra. Bharti took out "nyaya march" from the state party headquarters on Monday to Bhimrao Ambedkar statue at Hazratganj to protest against the policies of the Mayawati government. Bharti,...
07:43 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Saharanpur: The BJP on Thursday launched its campaign in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh accusing the state government of indulging in brazen loot of public money and promising good governance and jobs to the youth if voted to power. "A brazen loot of public money is going on both in Delhi and Lucknow. A slew of scams, skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, scarcity of water, power and horrible condition of roads have...
02:44 AM, Dec 02, 2011
Lucknow: BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday alleged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP supremo Mayawati is the biggest exploiter of sentiments of dalits and backwards. "Mayawati, who is ruling with a feudal mindset, has exploited and misused sentiments of dalits oppressed from centuries," she told reporters in Lucknow. Uma said Mayawati at a rally yesterday had affirmed that her elephant (BSP's party symbol) would crush opposition parties. "I want...
10:24 PM, Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: Traders' association CAIT has called for a nation-wide bandh on December 1 to protest the government's decision to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail. "To lodge their strong protest against FDI in retail trade, CAIT and Bharat Udyog Vyapar Mandal have called a Bharat Vyapar Bandh on December 1," Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said in a statement. The...
10:11 PM, Nov 25, 2011
Lucknow: BJP leader Uma Bharti on Friday threatened to set on fire Walmart store wherever it opens in the country to register her party's protest against allowing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail. "By giving permission to Walmart to directly invest in the retail sector, the Centre has jeopardised the employment opportunities of Dalits, poor and backwards," she told reporters in Lucknow. "I would personally set afire the showroom when...
06:26 PM, Nov 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been speaking in two voices on Ram Mandir. The party in-charge in Uttar Pradesh Uma Bharti has said that the issue is on the agenda. However, BJP president Nitin Gadkari has said that it is not an issue. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Gadkari said,"The BJP does not want to make Ram Mandir a political issue. It is the aspiration of the people of...
11:40 PM, Nov 17, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Wednesday termed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's decision to divide the state into four parts as a "political stunt" before the Assembly elections and indicated that one of these states will have a Muslim majority which could lead to "Kashmir-like" problems. BJP leader Uma Bharti said this decision was "completely a political stunt" and Mayawati had not consulted other political parties to form a consensus on...
07:28 PM, Nov 15, 2011
