In an attempt to ensure a multi-cornered electoral battle in Uttar Pradesh, BSP supremo Mayawati is set to launch a spirited campaign against Mr Mula-yam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party.

In an attempt to ensure a multi-cornered electoral battle in UP, BSP supremo Mayawati is set to launch a spirited campaign against Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party.

The BSP, which is said to

In bad news to the ruling BSP in Uttar Pradesh, state Intelligence told chief minister Mayawati that her party would at best get 160 seats, well short of the magic figure of 203 seats in the 403-stron

In bad news for the ruling BSP in Uttar Pradesh, the state intelligence has conveyed to chief minister Mayawati that her party would at best get 160 seats, well short of the magic figure of 203 seats in the 403-strong state Assembly.
The state intelligence is also learnt to have sounded the ruling dispensation that the successful social engineering of 2007 is no more intact in the state.

Amid worsening of relations between the Congress and Trinamul Congress, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh is likely to be the first UPA minister to meet the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee next week in the state capital.

Even after having announced to contest over 200 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is not likely to campaign in the state. The move on the part of Ms Banerjee to avoid UP is likely to help the Congress avert being dragged into war of words with the Trinamul Congress in the Hindi cow belt.

Faced with the onslaught of Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is likely to shed his anti-English and anti-computer image by promising to promote modern education in the party manifesto. The SP chief is likely to release the party manifesto on January 20 in Lucknow.

Wary of the National Food Security Bill meeting the fate of the Lokpal Bill, the Centre appears to have set a target of August 15 to unveil the law, with the hope that a political way out would be found to bring the Trinamul Congress and other opponents on board for which moves are afoot.

Facing an uphill task to beat the anti-incumbency factor, BSP supremo Mayawati appears to have tweaked her famed social engineering by putting her faith in Most Backward Castes (MBCs) and Muslims more, apart from dropping half the sitting party MLAs. While Ms Mayawati has resorted to discarding a large number of BSP MLAs, her rival political parties are latching on these spurned leaders to turn the tables on the ruling party in the state.

Samajwadi Party insiders view that the party is netting leaders from other parties for their Rajya Sabha dreams. The SP leaders believe that as many as top four leaders, including RLD’s Anuradha Choudhary and Shahid Siddiqui, BSP’s Naresh Agarwal and Muslim Personal Law Board head of Uttar Pradesh Kamal Farooqui, have clearly flocked to fulfil their Rajya Sabha dreams.