Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday publicly praised senior BJP leader L.K. Advani while upbraiding his son Akhilesh Yadav’s SP government in Uttar Pradesh, Mr Mulayam Singh said Mr Advani had told him that the image of the UP government was not good.

Undeterred by the storm he kicked up a few days ago, Union minister Beni Prasad Verma, once again, mounted another attack on Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and said that one who “keeps looking after the interests of his own family cannot be a true Samajwadi”.

The CBI team probing the triple murders in Pratapgarh district, including that of DSP Zia-ul-Haq, are now arriving at the conclusion that the death of the village pradhan Nanhe Yadav’s brother, Suresh Yadav, was caused by accidental firing.

UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said on Friday that the previous Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government had turned the state police force into a party cadre.

UP minister for urban development and minority welfare Mohd Azam Khan has dropped another bombshell.

UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said on Wednesday that the Samajwadi Party’s support to the UPA government would continue and the final decision on this would be taken by party president Mulayam Sing

Former Samajwadi Party MP Chandra Nath Singh was detained and later released in Shahjahanpur after a young girl accused him of molesting her on the Padmawat Express.

The CBI achieved a major breakthrough in the triple murders in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district when it recovered the fully loaded service revolver of slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq from a village pond close to the spot where village pradhan Nanhe Yadav was shot dead. The sidearm had been missing since the DSP was murdered on March 2.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi told voters in his constituency that he wanted Amethi known internationally.

Was DSP Zia-ul Haq killed by a bullet fired from the firearm of the slain village head’s son Yogendra, aka, Babloo?