Mahendra Singh Tikait, well-known farmer leader and president of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, died on Sunday after a protracted illness.

Heads have begun rolling in Uttar Pradesh following the “mishandling” of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Greater Noida on May 11.
The CM, on Saturday, transferred ADG NCR Gurbachan Lal and SSP Greater Noida S.N. Singh and replaced them with K.L. Meena and Jyoti Narain respectively. Though

The protests against land acquisitions by farmers in Greater Noida turned into a full-blown political war on Thursday after the arrest of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday night with the BJP too sending senior leaders into UP to express solidarity with the farmers. UP chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati hit back at the Congress, calling Mr Gandhi’s dharna “mean theatrics’ and saying the Opposition parties were playing dirty politics and trying to malign her image and her party.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi created a furore in political circles when he reached Greater Noida’s violence-hit Bhatta Parsaul village in the early hours Wednesday, riding pillion on a motorcycle, where he sat on an “indefinite” dharna with the farmers and vowed not to desert them till their demands were met.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi created a furor in political circles when he reached the violence-hit Bhatta parsaul village in Greater Noida in the wee hours of Wednesday morning to meet the agitating farmers.

Police on Thursday baton-charged and detained several Congress leaders and workers, including UPCC president Rita Bahuguna Joshi, during a statewide protest against the arrest of Rahul Gandhi.

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UP Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday accused the Congress and other opposition parties of attempting to disturb law and order by spreading rumours on land acquisition and dubbed Rahul Gandhi's dharn

UP chief minister Mayawati 0n Thursday accused the Congress and other Opposition parties of attempting to disturb law and order by spreading rumours on land acquisition and dubbed Rahul Gandhi's dharna in Greater Noida as "mean theatrics".

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday night launched a counter offensive against opposition parties accusing them of provoking the farmers of Bhatta Parsaul into violence and charged the

The announcement of the UP Pradesh Congress executive committee has started generating considerable heat in the party circles.
The 51-member committee is filled with regional imbalances and over 20 districts have gone completely unrepresented.