He has the will and enthusiasm of a teenager and at the age of 64, he has returned to college to study law.

For parties that have a “national” status, the performance can easily be termed as dismal.

The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday retained the Nidhauli Kalan and Lakhimpur seats for which byelections were held on November 20.

A village panchayat in Muzaffarnagar district has banned the use of mobile phones by unmarried girls.

Caste-based politics may gradually be giving way to development-based politics in Uttar Pradesh but that has not prevented more and more caste-centric political outfits from taking birth.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes on Sunday rejected the Uttar Pradesh government’s claims of bringing down incidents of violence against dalits, terming them “baseless and misleading”.

Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav has threatened to take BSP MLAs “hostage” if the Mayawati government does not withdraw the additional security provided to its ministers who, in turn,

The Samajwadi Party is preparing to adopt an aggressive posture on issues related to Muslims and the party will put the Congress in the dock on this issue.
According to party sources, the Samajwadi leadership now plans to reconsolidate its base among Muslims and repair the damage that had been done to it, following the brief alliance with former BJP leader Kalyan Singh.

They are here for all seasons, before elections, during elections and even after elections. They may lack electoral presence but they have ample political presence. Smaller parties in Uttar Pradesh have lost their credibility but are financially going great guns. These parties hitch on to bigger political bandwagons whenever the latter need moral support and jump off the same when the deed is done.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi indicated on Wednesday he was all set to marry “very soon”.
While interacting with people in Amethi in the morning, he casually asked an elderly man if he wanted anything. The answer: all he wanted was to see his MP married.