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Congress making Dalits 'scapegoats': Mayawati after Mallikarjun Kharge elected party chief
•Mallikarjun Kharge, a Dalit leader from Karnataka, trounced his 66-year-old rival Shashi Tharoor in a historic election held four days ago to become the first non-Gandhi to head the Congress in 24 years
In third term as Samajwadi Party chief, Akhilesh Yadav eyes Mayawati's Dalit vote bank
•Taking over from his father, Akhilesh Yadav first become SP president at an emergency meeting of the party in the backdrop of power tussle in the family in January 2017, and for the second time at the scheduled party national convention at Agra in October the same year
Mayawati slams Akhilesh Yadav for meeting jailed party MLA
•She also targeted the Samajwadi Party chief for not offering the same support to party's jailed Muslim leaders
Explained: How Dalit boy's killing has put Ashok Gehlot’s govt under pressure
Fp Explainers •Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot is facing flak from his own party with 12 Congress councillors submitting their resignations on Tuesday and Sachin Pilot saying he hoped the government would do justice to the family as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the BJP and BSP are also on the attack
Rajasthan: BSP chief Mayawati demands President's Rule after death of dalit boy
•Nine-year-old Indra Kumar Meghwal, who was studying at a private school in Surana village of Jalore district, was allegedly beaten up by his teacher for touching a water pot on 20 July. He later succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Gujarat's Ahmedabad
Mayawati announces support for NDA's vice presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar
Fp Staff •BJP had last month named former WB governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, a Jat leader from Rajasthan with socialist background, as the ruling National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) vice presidential candidate
'Can't even handle his own family...': OP Rajbhar slams Akhilesh Yadav
Fp Staff •OP Rajbhar said that his party is no longer in alliance with the Samajwadi Party and indicated that he could be cosying up to the BSP
Mayawati hits out at controversies surrounding transfers in health and public works department in UP
•At a meeting of BSP office bearers from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, she alleged the people of Uttar Pradesh are harassed due to corruption at every level
Mayawati says BJP confusing people with 'population' scare, deviating from 'real issues'
•She was apparently referring to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's statement on Monday, who said that population imbalance in the country can lead to anarchy
Mayawati cautions partymen against nefarious designs of rivals, asks them to convert mass support into votes
•The BSP president urged her partymen to strengthen the organisation at the grassroots level and take forward the work of expanding the base more rapidly and issued guidelines in this regard.