UP chief minister Mayawati’s 55th birthday on January 15 will now be celebrated as Prerna Diwas.
The idea is to present Ms Mayawati as a role model for dalits, particularly women.

Wary of losing their tickets at the last minute and also the mounting anti-incumbency factor against the Mayawati government, a sizeable number of BSP MLA in Uttar Pradesh have started looking for oth

The EC is now planning to use celebrities to create awareness among the voters towards their right to franchise for the 2012 Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. “We are on a look out for celebrities from Uttar Pradesh in the field of sports, film, media or culture to issue appeals and messages to voters and mobilise more and more people to exercise their franchise,” chief electoral officer of UP, Umesh Sinha, told reporters.

UP chief minister Mayawati has finally put her legislators on the chopping block. After declaring that all sitting BSP MLAs would be re-nominated for the next Assembly elections, Ms Mayawati has started weeding out the “deadwood” from the party.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s ambitious Gaon Chalo Abhiyan is fast losing steam in Uttar Pradesh.
The programme that began on December 15 with the intention of making inroads into the rural interiors and expanding party’s base in the state where elections are due in 2012, is petering out.

UP chief minister Mayawati may have cut out ostentatious celebrations for her 55th birthday on January 15 but that will not stop her from doling out gifts to the people of Uttar Pradesh on that day.

Bowing to mounting pressure from the Opposition, UP chief minister Mayawati on Sunday suspended the BSP MLA from Banda, Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi, who is an accused in the rape of a minor dalit girl.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) is all set to give the Mayawati government a “taxing” time in the New Year.

The rape of a dalit girl, allegedly by the BSP MLA from Banda, is snowballing into a major political controversy with all major political parties using the issue to embarrass the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party.

The advent of 2011 in Uttar Pradesh will mark the beginning of a battle between all major political parties that will culminate in the next Assembly elections.
Though the next Assembly polls are scheduled in early 2012, the battle for power will begin in right earnest from January.