UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati, while sensing a larger political fallout due to the likely coming together of the Congress and RLD for the 2012 UP Assembly polls, is leaning back on the strategy to make inroads into the Jat vote base to blunt the move of the rival parties.

After the Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi held talks with the RLD chief Ajit Singh and his son and MP Jayant Choudhary in London this week, ice appears to have finally been broken for the way

After burying the hatchet with alliance partner BJP in Bihar, the JD(U) has stated that the leaders within the saffron party nursing grievances against the deputy chief minister, Mr Sushil Modi, had deepened the rift.

The Samajwadi Party has stated that expelled party leader Amar Singh’s new political outfit, Lok Manch, will just add to a long list of insignificant parties in UP. The party has also made light of the claim of Mr Amar Singh that he had played an instrumental role in the humiliating defeat of the SP candidate in the Dumariyaganj Assembly byelections.

The BSP supremo and UP chief minister Mayawati, is gearing up to hit the campaign trail for Assembly elections in 2012 with over six lakh government job boosters. The BSP supremo is banking on clean and transparent recruitment in state government jobs by scaling up the number on a larger scale to tilt the political fortune in her favour.

A shell-shocked Samajwadi Party, after strings of defeats in Assembly byelections, is now to take inspiration from its arch rival, the BSP. Taking note of the fact that the party’s organisation is nowhere to match the ruling BSP in UP, the SP is now setting out to replicate the Mayawati-led party structure in a bid to infuse the much-needed strength in the ranks of the party workers.

Rajya Sabha elections in UP has turned out to be straight and simple, with 11 candidates in the fray for the same number of vacancies. The ruling BSP is all set to gain from the surplus votes of the BJP and Samajwadi Party, as the party is short of the support of the 12 MLAs to ensure the victory of its seventh candidate.

Though Samajwadi Party has initiated serious efforts to repair its raptured Muslim-Yadav combination, the expelled party founder, Azam Khan, continues to make the SP chief, Mulayam Singh Yadav, toil h

Warming up to the UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati with an apology, the expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Sunday charged leaders of his former party for implicating him in a Rs 500 crore financial fraud case.

The Samajwadi Party has maintained that there is no possibility for expelled party leader Amar Singh to come back into the party fold. The party refuted the claim of Mr Singh in his blog that delegates in the just concluded National Executive Meeting had raised the question of his return into the party.