After wooing Brahmins, OBCs and dalits, the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party is Uttar Pradesh will extend its hand to Muslims, Thakurs and Vaishyas at a rally in the state capital on Sunday. The rally is part of the party’s strategy to consolidate its sarvjan (all castes) formula that had catapulted it to power in 2007. The BSP will be focusing on three vote banks that are believed to have shifted to other parties in recent months.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi wrapped up his five-day tour of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday by exhorting the people to work towards a change in the upcoming Assembly elections.

Favouring reservation for Muslims, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday said that 27 per cent OBC quota should be increased by making constitutional amendment to include backward Muslims

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi finally broke his silence over FDI in retail sector and came out in its support. He said that the Opposition, which was opposing the same, was anti-farmer.

The attacks are getting sharper as he moves deeper into the heartland of Uttar Pradesh.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused UP chief minister Mayawati of being blissfully ignorant of the ground realities in her own state.

With three out of the four BJP leaders in-charge of the election campaign in UP now emerging as candidates themselves, the party’s campaign is in jeopardy.
The list of 143 candidates released on Tuesday night in Delhi carries the name of Kalraj Misra and Surya Pratap Shahi as BJP candidates from Lucknow East and Pathardeva Assembly seats, respectively.

“In UP, MNREGA does not work because the elephant here eats up all the money. Normally, elephants eat grass but the magic elephant in UP actually eats currency and this currency belongs to neither the UPA government nor the UP government — it belongs to you,” said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi while addressing a rally in Badaun on Wednesday.

Ms Sonia Gandhi, Ms Uma Bharti, Ms Mayawati and now Ms Mamta Banerjee.
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are all set to take an interesting turn with four top women politicians jostling for their political space in the state.

As he entered the Samajwadi Party bastion on Tuesday, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi faced resistance from the Samajwadi Party workers.
Samajwadi activists on Tuesday attempted to block Mr Gandhi’s convoy as he made his way to Badaun district from where he began his five day tour in western UP.

UP chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday said hat that her party wanted the Prime Minister, CBI and the lower bureaucracy to be brought under the ambit of the proposed Lokpal bill.