MANISH ANAND
Mayawati blocks rural plan to keep dalits in fold
To prevent the Congress from taking any credit, Uttar Pradesh chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati has blocked the Centre’s move to get the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojna (PMAGY), meant for over
Maya stalls Centre rural aid to keep dalits in fold
To prevent the Congress from taking any credit, Uttar Pradesh chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati has blocked the Centre’s move to get the Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojna (PMAGY), meant for over
Didi’s poser: Why make Bengalis work harder?
“Are Bengalis physically more powerful than others, that they need to work 50 per cent harder than people in other states to earn their daily wages?” West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee asked r
Centre sees job fraud in UP, to confront Maya
An internal inquiry by the rural development ministry has revealed “fraudulent” purchases of over `8 crores under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in just one district of Uttar Pradesh — Ba
Food security ordinance mooted prior to UP poll
With stakes high for the Congress in next month’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the UPA may implement some provisions of the National Food Security Bill through an executive order.
Rahul copies Nitish’s social engineering
As part of the “social outreach” programme of the Youth Congress, party general secretary Rahul Gandhi appears to have taken a leaf out of the social engineering of Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to reach out to sections within dalits who have apparently not benefited during the regime of the incumbent Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati.
BJP is the main culprit: Rahul
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the Opposition for having stalled the passage of the Lokpal bill in Parliament. He also said that the Congress would “not rest till a strong law is passed”.
Rahul to Youth Congress: Man booths
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is banking on an army of 12.5 lakh Youth Congress members to rally behind party candidates in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh for a repeat of the 2009 general elections show. Youth Congress president Rajiv Satav is confident that with over three lakh office bearers having been networked his members would boost the strength of the party in UP.
Rahul Gandhi ties up with Google for Uttar Pradesh poll info
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi is banking on an army of 12.5 lakh Youth Congress (YC) members to rally behind party candidates in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh (UP).
Each polling booth in UP wil
No bitter attack on Congress: SP
In a bid to keep the option open for a post-poll tieup with the Congress, the Samajwadi Party is learnt to have briefed its leaders to target the ruling BSP in the election campaign mostly and ignore
