Shivpal Yadav cracks whip again, sacks 7 Akhilesh loyalists

Lucknow, Sep 17 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said he would support his uncle and Samajwadi Party state President Shivpal Yadav, and there was "no rift" in the party. "I have congratulated him (Shivpal Yadav) on ...

19 August 2016, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, PTI A Samajawadi Party leader's nephew was stabbed to death here after which mobs went on a rampage and ransacked half a dozen shops. Mohammad Adil (20), nephew of SP's district vice president ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party will launch four 'parivartanyatra' next month in Uttar Pradesh and it will stretch over 100 days and conclude with a likely rally by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the party works to take on the might of ruling Samajawadi Party and Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party in the poll-bound state. Party sources said the four yatras will start from Saharanpur, Lalitpur, Sonbhadra and either Gorakhpur or Balia and converge at one place, which could be Lucknow, after the ...

Akhilesh Yadav New Delhi, Sep 8 The BSP, with 169 seats, will emerge as the largest party in a hung Uttar Pradesh assembly after state elections in six months -- followed by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the ruling Samajwadi Party , a survey has ...

Mathura, Sept 24 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik today said the state government should take cognisance of the NHRC report, which found that many families had "migrated" from Kairana due to threats pertaining to "increase in crime" and ...

Team India discard and bowler Praveen Kumar today started his new innings in politics by joining the ruling Samajawadi Party here today. Praveen, who is expected to contest the coming Assembly elections from some seats in Meerut his home town, took ...

The Supreme Court on Monday took note of the alleged controversial statement of Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan that the Bulandshahr gangrape of a mother and her daughter was a "political conspiracy" and sought his and the Samajawadi Party government's response on a plea to shift the probe and trial in the case out of the state due to "distrust". The brutal incident had happened on the night of July 29 when a group of highway robbers stopped the car of a Noida- based family and sexually ...

Taking a strong exception to death of a 26-year-old Dalit man in police custody in Kanpur, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Friday said crime against the weaker sections of society have been on a rise ever since Akhilesh Yadav-led ...

Even by the standards of Indian political dynasties, the great Samajwadi parivar has few parallels. It was nearly 50 years ago that Mulayam Singh Yadav was first elected as an MLA. Seventeen other family members have followed him into public life ...