The much-needed colour in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, this time, will come from an unexpected corner when MP Jaya Prada takes on her arch rival Mohd Azam Khan, a senior Samajwadi Party leader.

The CBI probing the food grain scam in Uttar Pradesh raided the residential and commercial premises of a former minister Vinod Kumar Singh a.k.a. Pandit Singh in Gonda.
Pandit Singh is a senior Samajwadi Party leader and was minister for medical education in the Mulayam Singh government.

The newly-formed front of Peace Party, Bundelkhand Congress and Apna Dal on its own may not seem big enough to make a political impact in Uttar Pradesh elections but it definitely has the power to cau

UP chef minister Mayawati on Tuesday accused the Centre of trying to deliberately delay the issue of division of Uttar Pradesh into four states.

As expected, the Centre has asked UP chief minister Mayawati to explain details of her plan to divide Uttar Pradesh into four states.

The home ministry, which returned the proposal sent by Uttar Prad

UP chief minister Mayawati on Sunday beat the chilling temperatures with her fiery speech when she directly accused the Congress of betraying Muslims.

After wooing Brahmins, OBCs and dalits, the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party is Uttar Pradesh will extend its hand to Muslims, Thakurs and Vaishyas at a rally in the state capital on Sunday. The rally is part of the party’s strategy to consolidate its sarvjan (all castes) formula that had catapulted it to power in 2007. The BSP will be focusing on three vote banks that are believed to have shifted to other parties in recent months.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi finally broke his silence over FDI in retail sector and came out in its support. He said that the Opposition, which was opposing the same, was anti-farmer.

With three out of the four BJP leaders in-charge of the election campaign in UP now emerging as candidates themselves, the party’s campaign is in jeopardy.
The list of 143 candidates released on Tuesday night in Delhi carries the name of Kalraj Misra and Surya Pratap Shahi as BJP candidates from Lucknow East and Pathardeva Assembly seats, respectively.

Ms Sonia Gandhi, Ms Uma Bharti, Ms Mayawati and now Ms Mamta Banerjee.
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are all set to take an interesting turn with four top women politicians jostling for their political space in the state.