Tag: Mayawati

BSP-SP alliance giving “sleepless nights” to BJP: Mayawati

"The government should give 100 per cent farm loan waiver. Else farmer suicides will continue. A strong farm loan waiver policy should be made."

January 15, 2019

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: With alliance finalized, SP and BSP take swipe at BJP

While the two parties will contest on 76 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, two seats (Rae Bareli and Amethi) have been left for the Congress and two seats for the other alliance partners.

January 12, 2019

Anti-BJP leaders welcome SP-BSP alliance; UP CM says such ties will bring anarchy

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) made official their decision to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as allies with an objective to throw out the “arrogant” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the centre.

January 12, 2019

Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav announce BSP-SP alliance for 2019 Lok Sabha polls | Slam ‘arrogant’ BJP

In a landmark press conference in Lucknow on Saturday, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) – previously bitter political rivals – officially announced their alliance ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

January 12, 2019

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Akhilesh, Mayawati may announce SP BSP alliance tomorrow

The past couple of days saw posters and banners spring up outside the SP office and at other places in the state capital hailing the `gatbandhan’ (alliance).

January 11, 2019

Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav may announce alliance in joint press conference on 12 Jan

Days after agreeing to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections together, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) are all set to hold a joint press conference on Saturday in Lucknow.

January 11, 2019

Mayawati cuts into BJP over CBI investigation, says action and timing politically motivated

Mayawati hit out at the BJP leaders for their statements on the case asking since when did they become the ‘spokespersons’ of the investigating agency.

January 7, 2019

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: RLD unhappy with UP seat sharing; wants more seats

Party leaders feel that RLD, in an alliance with SP and BSP, can win elections on many important seats of western UP with their Jats-Muslims formula.

January 6, 2019

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: SP and BSP poll pact in UP almost certain; sans Congress

While no formal declaration about the pact has come forth from either the SP or the BSP, it is understood that Mayawati may make an announcement to this effect on January 10.

January 5, 2019

Following Mayawati’s ‘ultimatum’, Madhya Pradesh to annul cases filed after April 2 Bharat Bandh

The BSP has two members in the 230-member Assembly in which the Congress has 114 MLAs and is two short of the majority mark.

January 1, 2019

Akhilesh Yadav upset as lone SP MLA left out of MP cabinet, hints at UP coalition sans Congress

A miffed Yadav had 'thanked' the Congress for not making his party's lone MLA in Madhya Pradesh a minister, saying it has made the 'road ahead clear for his party'.

December 27, 2018

Noida police order to stop offering namaz at park ‘discriminatory’: Mayawati

Her statement comes a day after the police ordered offices and establishments in Noida to direct their Muslim employees to stop offering Friday prayers in open areas such as parks.

December 26, 2018

Mayawati key to 2019 poll battle

It seems the Congress is keen to offer at least one of her MLAs a berth in chief minister Kamal Nath’s cabinet. But Mayawati has not bitten the bait yet.

December 26, 2018

Chauhan ended Goa-like plan

As soon as it looked like the Congress would not touch the majority mark on its own and its victory margin was narrow, the BJP top brass began working the phones to the two BSP MLAs and Independents.

December 19, 2018

People voted for Congress much against their wishes: Mayawati

Mayawati told the media that the poor, Dalits, marginalized and religious minorities had suffered during the past governments of the Congress.

December 12, 2018

BSP, SP extend support to Congress in MP ‘to keep BJP out of power’

Targeting the ruling government, the BSP chief Mayawati said the poll results explained that the people in states like Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh were 'totally against the BJP and its anti-people policies'.

December 12, 2018

BSP chief Mayawati blames UP government for Bulandshahr violence

Four people have been arrested so far in connection with the violence after police lodged an FIR against over two dozen people for rioting.

December 4, 2018