Tag: Mayawati

Mayawati jolts Cong, ties up with Ajit Jogi’s party in Chh’garh, to fight alone in MP

Mayawati had earlier in July warned the Congress leaders of not forming an alliance if not given a respectable number of seats.

September 21, 2018

RSS anti-minority, anti-Dalit: BSP chief Mayawati

She also termed the ordinance making triple talaaq a criminal offence a politically inspired move.

September 20, 2018

BSP has no truck with Bhim Sena: Mayawati

Party supremo denies any relation with such outfit or its leader.

September 17, 2018

Mayawati accuses BJP of using Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s death for electoral gains

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of employing diversionary tactics to hide the government’s various failures.

September 16, 2018

H’yana Cong MLA asks Mayawati to break alliance with INLD

Congress MLA Karan Singh Dalal, who was suspended from the Assembly for alleged misbehaviour and using of derogatory language in just concluded monsoon session, has urged Mayawati to snap ties with the INLD as it was in "cahoots" with the ruling BJP.

September 14, 2018

A thaw in Indo-Pakistan ties?

A slight thaw is visible in India’s frozen relationship with Pakistan. After many months, Indian media representatives were invited for dinner by Islamabad’s envoy to New Delhi. It used to be a regular event on the social calendar of journalists covering foreign affairs. But after India-Pakistan ties nosedived, the dinner invitations stopped. In fact, media …

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September 12, 2018

BJP following wrong economic policies of Congress: Mayawati

With the Lok Sabha elections due in 2019, to be preceded by Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Tuesday sought to distance herself from the Congress.

September 11, 2018

Politics on the wedding menu

Politics is often the main item on the wedding menu when children of politicians get married. NCP leader Praful Patel’s daughter’s marriage reception turned out to be a forum to set up a meeting between his boss Sharad Pawar and BSP chief Mayawati. Mayawati herself did not attend the reception. She sent her main aide …

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August 8, 2018

BJP pursuing divisive politics in Assam: BSP supremo Mayawati

BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in states of playing a dangerous game of “narrow and divisive brand of politics” in the garb of implementing judiciary’s directives. Referring to the “near elimination” of some 40 lakh religious and linguistic minorities in Assam after the publication of the National …

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July 31, 2018

Alliance only if given respectable seat share: Mayawati warns Congress

Last month, the BSP had said that it was not in talks with the Congress for an alliance for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls.

July 24, 2018

BSP leader loses party posts for slur on Rahul Gandhi

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati sacked the party vice president and national coordinator Jai Prakash Singh from the two posts for his comments on Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

July 17, 2018

Mayawati removes Jai Prakash Singh from BSP post for slur on Rahul Gandhi

Singh had said: “Rahul looks more like his mother than his father. And his mother is a foreigner, thus he can never be the PM.”

July 17, 2018

Mayawati questions PM Modi’s silence on black money

The 62-year-old leader asked why the Modi government has failed in preventing people like Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya from fleeing the country.

July 1, 2018

BSP chief Mayawati ridicules BJP’s ‘Sampark for Samarthan’ programme

BSP supremo Mayawati today ridiculed the BJP’s “Sampark for Samarthan” programme, dubbing it as nothing but a photo-op with the high and the mighty. Mayawati’s criticism for the ruling BJP Contact for Support campaign comes on a day when the party broke its alliance with the PDP in Jammu and Kashmir. The programme is meant …

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June 19, 2018

Govt should review Kashmir policy: BSP president Mayawati

Voicing concern over the killing of a journalist and securitymen in Kashmir, BSP president Mayawati on Friday asked the Narendra Modi government to shun its “stubborn attitude” and review its Kashmir policy. The BSP supremo alleged the BJP’s Kashmir policy seems to be guided more by “narrow politics” of the party rather than being guided …

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June 15, 2018

After SC order, Mayawati vacates official bungalow in Lucknow

In wake of a Supreme Court order cancelling allotment of government residences to Uttar Pradesh’s former Chief Ministers, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati vacated her palatial official bungalow on Wednesday, her aide announced. In a letter to the state Estate Department, the four-time UP Chief Minister’s personal secretary Mewa Lal Gautam said while the …

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May 31, 2018

Akhilesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav seek two years time to vacate government bungalow

Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, have asked for two years to vacate the official government bungalow allotted to them. The Uttar Pradesh government on 17 May had served notices to six former chief ministers — Mulayam Singh Yadav, SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav, BSP chief Mayawati, ND …

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May 24, 2018