With the Samajwadi Party getting increasingly aggressive in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress has now turned defensive.
The protests held by the Samajwadi Party inside and outside the state Assembly on the issue of amending the urban local bodies bill by the Mayawati government have reinforced the Samajwadi Party’s position as the main challenger to the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal and Peace Party have joined hands with half-a-dozen other small parties to form a new political front in Uttar Pradesh.
Announcing that here on Wednesday, RLD president Choudhury Ajit Singh and Peace Party president Dr Ayub said that the new front will provide a viable political

The Rashtriya Lok Dal and Peace Party have joined hands with half-a-dozen other small parties to form a new political front in Uttar Pradesh.
Announcing that here on Wednesday, RLD president Choudhury Ajit Singh and Peace Party president Dr Ayub said that the new front will provide a viable political

The bill that proposes indirect elections for mayors and chairmen in urban local bodies — termed as “black bill by the Opposition” — was passed in the UP Assembly on Monday by a voice vote amidst near-violent protests by the Samajwadi Party.

They began with a bang and have ended with not even a whimper. The dalit-based political parties in Uttar Pradesh that had positioned themselves against the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party, seems to have lost the energy and the will to keep up the fight.

For the dozen-odd UP legislators who are in jail on various charges, the ongoing Budget Session has not offered any respite.
Barring Mukhtar Ansari, who has obtained court permission, not even a single jailed MLA has been able to attend the budget session. Ansari is currently in jail on charges of murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai.

A completely divided Opposition in the UP assembly has put the ruling BSP completely at ease in the state Legislature.
Opposition parties that claimed to prepare for a “final assault” on the Mayawati government in the Budget Session seems to have lost steam midway.

A love story went horribly wrong on Valentine’s Day eve in Agra, a city that is home to the eternal monument of love.

Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav has asked his party workers to prepare for a final do-or-die battle against the Mayawati government.
The three-day state convention of the Samajwadi Party in Gorakhpur has sent out a clear message to party cadres that they should remain prepared for the final assault on the Mayawati government in the next Assembly elections.

As election time draws near, the sun is beginning to shine for dalit officers in UP. UP chief minister Mayawati is apparently unnerved by the fact that she has been receiving maximum complaints from dalits during her inspection tours of the state.