UP chief minister Mayawati seems to have slipped into poll mode, a year and a half before elections in Uttar Pradesh are due.
Highly-placed sources claim that Uttar Pradesh could be heading towards an early election since the chief minister has already put the government and the party into a fast forward mode.

The preliminary decree on the Allahabad high court verdict on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suits has been prepared and the parties have been asked to file their objections or suggestions within six working days from Monday, an official said.

After Mohammed Azam Khan, the Samajwadi Party has started making renewed efforts to brink back all those old timers who had left the party because of either Mr Amar Singh or Mr Kalyan Singh.

Obviously taking a cue from the success story scripted by Nitish Kumar in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has visibly shifted her focus to the hard issue of governance, which was so far left to her select coterie of bureaucrats. This was clearly reflected in a review of the state’s law and order situation by her on Saturday.

UP chief minister Mayawati has given two months’ time to state police officials to improve the law and order situation in the state. The CM warned that she would begin surprise inspections in various districts and if she received complaints about the law and order situation, she would take punitive action against those responsible.

A vertical split has taken place in the Akhil Bhartiya Akhara Parishad with a group of Hindu saints here electing its new office-bearers in Allahabad on Friday.
Supporters of Mahant Gyan Das, who is the parishad head, boycotted the meeting.

Mr Sanjay Singh Chauhan, RLD MP from Bijnore, has landed in trouble by printing the national symbol (Ashok Chakra) on his son’s wedding card.

UP chief minister Mayawati has lost no time in returning the fire.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday mounted a scathing attack on the Mayawati government when she said that corruption in Uttar Pradesh was from “top to bottom”.

Superstar Amitabh Bachchan, on Wednesday, created a stir in Muzaffarnagar village in Kakori, on the outskirts of Lucknow, when he reached there to inspect his agricultural land.