Bahujan Samajwadi Party

Amar Singh files police complaint against Azam Khan for threatening daughters with acid attack; FIR registered

Singh claimed that the Samajwadi Party (SP) leader had threatened him and his twin 17-year-old daughters during an interview to a television channel. The Rajya Sabha MP had gone to Rampur on 30 August and asked Khan to "sacrifice" him and spare his daughters.

Rise of Hindutva forces, upper caste antagonism catalyse drive by educated Dalits to assert their identity

Christophe Jaffrelot talks about what's exceptional about current resurgence of Dalit assertiveness, and why right-wing politics will always have limited appeal for backward castes

BJP won't come to power if ballot papers are used in 2019 Lok Sabha polls: Mayawati

Challenging the BJP, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati said on Saturday "with full confidence" that the saffron party would lose the general elections due in 2019 if ballot papers are used, instead of electronic voting machines.

Yogi Adityanath blames previous regimes for emptying Uttar Pradesh's coffers

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday alleged that "mismanagement" during the previous SP and BSP regimes had emptied the state's coffers.

Gorakhpur tragedy: Ranked lowest in health care, Uttar Pradesh needs intent to evolve from squalor

India's inability to improve health outcomes is among the major reasons of not meeting the millennium goals of sustainable development despite rapid growth.

Samajwadi Party urges Pranab Mukerjee to waive farm loans across country, stop BJP's 'anti-farmer' policy

A Samajwadi Party delegation met Governor Ram Naik on Thursday and handed over a memorandum, addressed to the President, demanding waiving off farmers' loans through out the country.

Mulayam Singh mum on participation in Lalu Prasad's 27 August rally

Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday declined to confirm his participation in the proposed 27 August rally to be organised by Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad in Patna in which invited several top opposition leaders have been invited.

SC to hear pleas challenging use of EVMs in polls on 13 April

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will hear on 13 April the pleas challenging the use of EVMs in elections without equipping the machines with voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT).

UP Election Results 2017: Priyanka equally responsible for Congress' defeat in state, claims Smriti Irani

The Uttar Pradesh election results not only underline Rahul Gandhi's failure, but also that of Priyanka Gandhi who was part of the poll strategy, Union Minister Smriti Irani said on Saturday.

UP Election 2017: 61 percent voter turnout in fourth phase of polling

Sixty-one percent of the nearly 2 crore voters on Thursday turned to cast their votes in phase four of Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.