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Lucknow, March 4 – Amid efforts to arrest the rape charge accused Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati, police issued a non-bailable warrant on Saturday against him and six other persons, a police officer said. Earlier in the day, Prajapati’s passport was also revoked for four weeks to prevent the absconding minister from fleeing the country.

Lucknow, Mar 3: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday promised full cooperation with regard to the case of rape-accused elusive minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati as per the directions of the Supreme Court. “The matter is in the Supreme …

Lucknow, Feb 21 : After dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “Mr Negative Dalit Man”, BSP chief Mayawati today charged him and BJP with trying to give “casteist and communal tinge” to the poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh. “In the past couple of days, BJP and its top leaders, including the PM, have been issuing wrong statements after assessing that the party has fared badly in the first three phases of polling,” she said in a statement here.

Lucknow, Feb 21 : After dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “Mr Negative Dalit Man”, BSP chief Mayawati today charged him and BJP with trying to give “casteist and communal tinge” to the poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh. “In the past couple of days, BJP and its top leaders, including the PM, have been issuing wrong statements after assessing that the party has fared badly in the first three phases of polling,” she said in a statement here.

New Delhi , Feb. 20 : Today is last date for withdrawal of nominations for the seventh and last phase of Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. 40 constituencies in Eastern Uttar Pradesh will go to polls in this phase on the 8th of March.

SAIFAI : Trying to close the chapter on a prolonged family feud for control over the Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Yadav clan presented a picture of unity on Sunday. Speaking to reporters after the vote in their native village Saifai, the Yadavs came out with perfectly in-sync sound bytes to dispel any notion of fight within the family.

Lucknow, Feb. 4: Freebies dominated the vision document unveiled by the BJP in Dehradun today for the February 15 Assembly polls. It promised free laptops and smartphones to meritorious students, free Wi-fi in all state universities and free education up to post-graduation for all poor students.

Lucknow , Jan. 27 : A delegation of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders will meet Election Commission officers here with allegations that the state administration is adopting a partisan approach. Senior party leaders Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Bhupendra Yadav are set to meet the officers in the afternoon.

Lucknow, Jan 23: The pre-poll alliance between Samajwadi Party and Congress party before the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly election may have helped the Congress to survive in the state and try to bounce back to power after 27 years, but the pre-poll alliance have led to creation of confusion in the minds of traditional Samajwadi Party voters as well as the loyal workers. From the party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav to party workers, many in the party seem uncomfortable with the party’s decision.

Lucknow, Jan 22 – The Samajwadi Party and the Congress announced on Sunday that they will jointly contest the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly election. –IANS md/mr/py http://www.nerve.in/news:2535003887474 You can quote the permanent link above for a direct link to the story.

Lucknow, Jan 19: Dashing the hopes of a ‘maha gathbandhan’ against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party today ruled out any alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal but asserted that it would have a tie-up with Congress. “We will forge an alliance only with the Congress.

Both the parties had been banking heavily on the internal feud in the first family of the state with Mayawati projecting her party as the only force to take on the saffron brigade in the face of a weakened Samajwadi Party. Akhilesh-led SP is likely to seal its alliance with the Congress later this week, a deal that would pitchfork the combine as the main contender against the resurgent BJP in the coming elections in UP.

Lucknow , Jan. 16 : Welcoming the Election Commission of India’s move of allotting the Samajwadi Party symbol ‘cycle’ to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s faction, party state president Naresh Uttam on Monday says that the development is the victory of truth and the people of the state. “This is the victory of the truth and people of Uttar Pradesh.

Lucknow, Jan 9 : Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said there is no rift between him and his son and made it clear that Akhilesh Yadav will be the Chief Minister after the election. [NK India] Speaking to mediapersons, he said, Akhilesh will be the Chief Minister after the election.

New Delhi/Lucknow , Jan. 9 : Commenting on the ongoing power tussle in the Samajwadi Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said that the Yadav clam-led party was now incapable to thinking beyond its prolonged family feud, while asserting that that the people of Uttar Pradesh are feeling cheated with the current development as progress in the state is being hampered. [NK India] BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh said that the drama in the Uttar Pradesh’s Yadav family had started to take affect Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s performance, which then turned into an internal fight in the family, resulting in complete chaos within the party.

Lucknow , Jan. 7 : The Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Saturday called a meeting of the party workers to discuss the failure of the Uttar Pradesh ruling party and also beware the people of the state not to be deceived by the tactics used by the rival parties. [NK India] “I have called a joint meeting of senior party holders of BSP state unit and candidates for all the 403 seats to discuss the ongoing family feud in Samajawadi Party and the loopholes especially the law and order situation, jungle raj and biased politics in Uttar Pradesh.

Wary of making mistakes for which it paid heavy price in Bihar, the BJP is going to weed out “negativity” from its campaign in Uttar Pradesh. Party sources said that development will be the primary focus of BJP’s high-voltage campaign in Uttar Pradesh, where it is locked in a multi-cornered contest.

Bengaluru , Jan. 3 : The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said that the people of Uttar Pradesh now have a clear choice in the upcoming assembly polls as true colors of the Samajwadi Party are being exposed in their internal feud. “Instead of fighting the assembly elections they are fighting among themselves.

Lucknow, Jan 3: Amid the ongoing crisis in Samajwadi Party, Congress’ stand seem divided on forming an alliance with the party under the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav in the crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections this year. While the senior leadership of Congress compared the family feud in the Samajwadi Party to a 1990s soap opera and evaded questions of pre-poll alliance, majority of the party MLAs in Uttar Pradesh spoke in favour of tie-up with Samajwadi Party under the Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Lucknow , Dec. 31 : Samajwadi Party’s re-inducted leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Saturday said that the revoking of his expulsion does not matter to him and he remains unaffected. [NK India] “It doesn’t matter as the expulsion took place yesterday and our decision happened before the eviction and we are conducting our conference which is along expected lines,” he told ANI here.