Khatri chalks out plan to please minorities

The excessive pampering of Muslims and Brahmins by the Samajwadi Party on the eve of Lok Sabha elections has begun annoying other caste groups, particularly Yadavs. The partys concentration on Muslims and Brahmins at the cost of neglecting Yadavs could upset ...

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday flatly denied pressurising his son Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, on whom he had entrusted the reins of the SP government 14 months ago. Talking to mediapersons at the party state headquarters in Lucknow, he reacted sharply, when a scribe sought to blame the pitfalls of the Akhilesh regime on him. “I do not exercise any kind of pressure on Akhilesh or his government”, he asserted, while hastening to add, ...

The first meeting of state Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) executive on Saturday demanded state government to extend separate quota to backward Muslims and constitute minority welfare bodies immediately. The state executive meeting presided over by state ...

With Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) chief Nirmal Khatri kicked off the Party's campaign against state government proposed move to hike power tariff, in Etah on Saturday, former state president, Dr Rita Bahuguna Joshi is all set to take ...

Uttar Pradesh government has appointed prominent Muslim cleric of Barelvi sect Mohd Tauqeer Raza Khan as advisor in handloom department - a Minister of State status, triggering criticism from BJP, which said it was done to woo Muslim voters. ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) decided to postpone its countrywide agitation against the failure of the ruling coalition at the eleventh hour. The BJP had planned to launch the weeklong protest from May 27, asking its activists and supporters to ...

BJP national President Rajnath Singh will lead in Lucknow the party's 'jail bharo' agitation called against "misrule" of the UPA government and "poor" law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh under the SP rule. Party's chief spokesperson Vijay ...

Six decades after India's partition made Muslim politics a dirty word, parties founded by Muslims to espouse the cause of the country's largest minority are again making a mark. Muslims in Varanasi, India, February 2009 ( Toby Williams | ...

New Delhi, June 18: Business has taken many enterprising Gujaratis to several parts of the world where they have proven their mettle. Now politics has pitchforked two Gujaratis into the heart of the world's biggest electoral battlefield: Uttar ...