There is finally some good news for UP chief minister Mayawati.
A poll survey conducted this month puts her ahead of her political rivals and shows that she is all set to become chief minister of UP for the second consecutive term. A voters’ attitude survey conducted by politicsparty.com in all the 403 Assembly segments between January 21 and 23, show that Ms Mayawati remains a frontrunner in state politics and could win 240 seats of the total of 403 seats in the next Assembly elections.

A man, who had been mortgaged by his wife and cousin for `15,000, has been made to work as a bonded labourer at a tent house company in Gurgaon for over five years now. He was let off recently when his family traced him and paid back the amount along with the interest.

Former SP leader Amar Singh’s Lok Manch has hit a rough patch.
His fledgling political outfit that was formed in June last year, now shows signs of disintegrating.
About four dozen Lok Manch activists returned to the parent Samajwadi Party on Sunday. Prominent among them included Anil Rajbhar, state president of Lok Manch, A

Even before the dust over the Banda rape case has settled down, the Mayawati government is all set to face another embarrassing situation over a similar case.

Dalit officers in Uttar Pradesh are feeling increasingly alienated in the Mayawati government and some of them are even angry with their “own” government.
The anger of dalit officers has welled up to such an extent that about a dozen of them, some retired, met at a private dinner two days ago and discussed the issue threadbare.

The Uttar Pradesh CB-CID on Thursday filed a chargesheet against BSP MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi and four others in a Banda court for allegedly raping a dalit girl, our correspondent reports.

The Uttar Pradesh CB-CID, on Thursday, filed a chargesheet against BSP MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi and four others in a Banda court for allegedly raping a dalit girl.
Meanwhile, the MLA’s wife, Asha Dwiwedi announced on Thursday that she and her family will commit suicide if the “conspiracy” against her husband was not exposed.

A lawyer allegedly committed suicide in Kanpur district by hanging himself from the ceiling after his repeated pleas to authorities to get his wife transferred failed to get any response. Lawyers in Kanpur had proceeded on a strike demanding action against those named in the suicide note.

They are strongly defending their son, much like any other parent would do. However, they are not too surprised at the turn of events and claim that they saw it coming.
Ayodhya Prasad and Premlata, parents of Anil Verma (the Indian diplomat accused of wife-beating), claim that the alleged victim and their daughter-in-law Paromita could never adjust into their family.

The Union Cabinet reshuffle may have been designed to create an impact in Uttar Pradesh where Assembly elections are due next year, but the changes are unlikely to change the dwindling fortunes of the party in the state.