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How SP won battleground UP

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The Samajwadi Party’s victory saga — the party has got the highest ever tally since its formation in 1992 — has been written with a script stolen, ironically, from the BSP.

The SP sensed the anti-BSP

Mayawati tenders resignation

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday tendered her resignation to Governor B.L. Joshi after facing a rout in the assembly elections.

The chief minister, apparently to avoid waiting

Majority of Muslim votes went to SP: Mayawati

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Accusing Congress and BJP of raising the minority sub-quota issue mid-way during the UP polls for their political gains, BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday said this helped in large-scale transfer of Mus

Congress trailing in Rae Bareli

In a shocker for the Congress, the party was trailing in all five assembly seats in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh which is represented in the Lok Sabha by party president Sonia Gandhi.

Election Commiss

Mayawati resigning at 3:30 pm?

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BSP boss Mayawati has so far maintained strict silence following Tuesday's Assembly elections debacle. Her government is now all set to be thrown out of Uttar Pradesh by a resurgent Samajwadi Party.

I won't be UP chief minister: Akhilesh Yadav

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Samajwadi Party's new face Akhilesh Yadav said he did not want to be the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, saying his father Mulayam Singh Yadav deserved the job.

"I am not in the race for chief minister

SP: Too early to talk on alliance with Congress in UP

As Uttar Pradesh headed towards a hung Assembly, the Samajwadi Party today said it was too early to say whether it would approach the Congress for support in the formation of the next government.

Elections 2012: Congress humiliated in Rae Bareli

The Congress on Tuesday suffered a disastrous defeat losing all five seats in Uttar Pradesh's Rae Bareli constituency, represented by party president Sonia Gandhi in the Lok Sabha.

Four of the seats

Maya's statues, elephants not to be pulled down in SP wave

The expensive giant statues of BSP supremo Mayawati and party symbol elephant in Uttar Pradesh will remain safe with Samajwadi's star campaigner Akhilesh Yadav saying on Tuesday they will not be pulle

Mulayam Singh Yadav: the Phoenix rises again

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He is diminutive but a never say die fighter, having learnt his skills as a young wrestler. On Tuesday, Mulayam Singh Yadav, aged 72, proved why he cannot be vanquished in his home turf.

As his Samaj

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