Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party has gone off rails, no more socialist: UP minister Brajesh Pathak

Pathak was retaliating to SP president Akhilesh Yadav’s statement on Friday that the BJP stood in opposition to the 1942 Quit India Movement started by Mahatma Gandhi and was making up for it now by hoisting flags everywhere.

Services Row: Samajwadi Party announces support to AAP over Central ordinance

The AAP chief has been reaching out to leaders of non-BJP parties to garner their support against the ordinance so that the Centre's bid to replace it through a Bill is defeated when it is brought in Parliament.

As Congress crosses majority mark in Karnataka, BJP has some reason to cheer in UP. Here’s why

The results of the Uttar Pradesh municipal elections are not likely to be as exciting as those of the Karnataka Assembly elections. The incumbent BJP is expected to win at least 10 municipal corporation seats. It is currently ahead in Ayodhya and Lucknow

Big test for Samajwadi Party bahu: Can Dimple Yadav retain Mulayam Singh’s bastion Mainpuri?

As by-polls are held in Uttar Pradesh, the most attention is on Mainpuri, the seat which was held for years by Mulayam Singh Yadav. Retaining the bastion matters to the Samajwadi Party, which has already lost its strongholds, Azamgarh and Rampur, to the BJP in the June by-polls

Shivpal Yadav's security changes from Z to Y; SP leaders call it BJP's petty tactics to bring 'Chacha-Bhatija' down

SP leaders say that BJP is not able to tolerate the unity of "Chacha and Bhatija", as a result of which now it is adopting petty tactics like reducing security

Azam Khan staunch opponent of communal forces, says SP chief Akhilesh Yadav 

Samajwadi Party chief hit out at the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and said that BJP is annoyed that Azam Khan made a high-end educational institution in Rampur

Akhilesh Yadav alleges EC didn't follow rules regarding voters' list in UP Assembly elections

The SP president also added, if the Election Commission followed rules regarding electoral roll in 2022 Assembly elections, thousands of voters would not have been deprived of voting

Mulayam Singh Yadav's last rites to be held in his ancestral village Saifai today

Mulayam Singh passed away on Monday morning at the age of 82 at Gurugram's Medanta Hospital due to age-related ailments

From firing at kar sevaks to defending rapists: The controversies courted by Mulayam Singh Yadav

Veteran leader Mulayam Singh Yadav was no stranger to controversy. The guest house scandal when Samajwadi Party workers attacked Mayawati, the order to fire at kar sevaks in Ayodhya, and remarks opposing capital punishment for rapists saying ‘boys will be boys’ are some lows of his political career

Mulayam Singh Yadav's death marks end of an era in Indian politics: Amit Shah

A three-day state mourning has been announced by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as a mark of respect to Mulayam Singh Yadav