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Hello Jammu News at 10:28:00 PM 0


Lucknow, Jun 24 :    BSP president Mayawati Monday asserted that her party will contest all elections in the future on its own, indicating an end of its much talked-about alliance with the Samajwadi Party. 

The announcement comes a day after the BSP supremo held a meeting with party workers to review her outfit's showing in the recent Lok Sabha polls. 

"Everyone is aware that forgetting everything of the past as also the anti-BSP and anti-Dalit decisions like reservation in promotions and bad law and order during the SP rule in 2012-2017, BSP adhered to the 'gatbandhan dharma' with the Samajwadi Party in the interest of the country," she tweeted in Hindi. 

"But SP's behaviour after the elections has forced the BSP to think, will it be possible to defeat the BJP in future, which is not possible," she said. 

"Therefore, in the interest of the party and movement, the party will contest all small and big elections on its own strength," Mayawati said in a series of tweets. 

The BSP entered into an electoral alliance with Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) and Chaudhary Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha polls. The alliance, however, failed to make an impact in the politically crucial state.          [Agencies]
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Lucknow, Mar 24 :  Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav will contest from Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, which was represented by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav.

While the 79-year-old SP patriarch will contest from "safe seat" Mainpuri this time, his name was conspicuously missing from the list of 40 star campaigners of the party released here Sunday.

The Samajwadi Party also announced that senior leader Mohd Azam Khan will contest from Rampur.

The party, however, sprang a surprise by not mentioning the name of its patron Mulayam Singh Yadav in its long list of its star campaigners.

The list was released by senior SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav.

It included the names of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Azam Khan, Dimple Yadav and Jaya Bachchan among others, besides Ram Gopal Yadav himself.

At present, the SP patriarch represents Azamgarh constituency. He had represented Mainpuri three times earlier in 1996, 2004 and 2009. 

In the 2014 polls, Mulayam contested from two constituencies, Azamgarh and Mainpuri, and won both.

The SP has so far announced the names of 20 candidates, 19 in Uttar Pradesh and one Madhya Pradesh.

Besides Mulayam Singh and Akhilesh Yadav, other prominent candidates are Akhilesh Yadav's cousins, Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav.

While Dharmendra Yadav will fight from Badaun, Akshay Yadav will contest from Firozabad.

Dharmendra Yadav, the son of Ram Gopal Yadav, will contest again from the seat that he has won thrice, while Akshay Yadav will contest from Firozabad, from where he had won the last parliamentary elections.

The party has declared Dimple Yadav its candidate from Kannauj. 

The Samajwadi Party, the BSP and the Rashtriya Lok Dal have entered into an alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the April-May Lok Sabha polls.

The Samajwadi Party has entered a pre-poll alliance with the Mayawati-led BSP and will contest 37 of 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP. 

While the BSP will contest on 38 seats, the RLD, which is also a part of the alliance, will fight from three seats. The SP-BSP-RLD alliance had left two seats for the Congress in Amethi and Rae Bareli.

The general election is going to start on April 11 and will continue till May 19. Polling on the 80 seats in the state will be held in seven phases. 

The Samajwadi Party and the BSP will hold a series of joint rallies for the Lok Sabha polls, with the first being on April 7 in Uttar Pradesh's Deoband town.

There will be several joint rallies in the state and besides the SP and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) will be also part of these public meetings, Samajwadi Party chief spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury said.

The first of these joint rallies will be held in Saharanpur district's Deoband town on April 7 and will be addressed by Akhilesh Yadav, BSP chief Mayawati and RLD president Ajit Singh.                                                                                                   [Agencies]
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Lucknow, Feb 21 :  The Samajwadi Party will contest 37 seats and the Bahujan Samaj Party 38 in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha polls, the two parties said Thursday while releasing a list of seats.

While announcing the alliance earlier, the two parties had said they will contest from 38 constituencies each out of the 80 in the state.

The two parties named the seats distributed among them in a statement signed by SP president Akhilesh Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati.

The 37 seats in the SP quota include Kairana, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Badaun, Bareilly, Lucknow, Etawah, Kanpur, Kannauj, Jhansi, Banda, Allahabad, Kaushambi, Phulpur, Faizabad, Gonda, Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Varanasi and Mirzapur.

The BSP will contest from Saharanpur, Bijnor, Nagina, Aligarh, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Dhaurahara, Sitapur, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Kaiserganj, Basti, Salempur, Jaunpur, Bhadohi and Deoria, among other constituencies.                   [Agencies]
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Lucknow, Jan 11 : Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and BSP chief Mayawati will address a joint press meet here Saturday, amid talks of seat-sharing for Lok Sabha polls from which the Congress seems to be almost out. 


The joint press conference at a posh hotel here was announced Friday by SP national secretary Rajendra Chaudhary and Bahujan Samaj Party national general secretary SC Misra. 

The top leadership of both the parties had met in New Delhi recently to discuss broad parameters of an alliance to take on the BJP unitedly in the Lok Sabha elections. 

The joint press conference will be the first after the parties gave contours of an electoral alliance ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 

The two party chiefs had given their "in principle" approval to the alliance, which has virtually shut its doors to the Congress in the state. 

Sources said that both the SP and the BSP are planning to contest on 37 seats each out of the 80 on offer in Uttar Pradesh and plan to leave just two, Rae Bareli and Amethi, the bastions of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for the Congress. 

Smaller parties like the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and the Nishad Party are also likely to be in the alliance. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP and its allies had won 73 of the 80 seats in UP. 

Congress leaders like PL Punia, who delivered Chhattisgarh to the Congress as its state in-charge, and UPCC chief Raj Babbar are reportedly of the view that the Congress should not "be sheepish in alliance negotiations any more" and should seek its pound of flesh.

They cite the example of 2009 when the Congress romped home with 22 Lok Sabha seats in UP, surprising many prophets of doom.

They also say that with party chief Rahul Gandhi getting more "combative, direct and effective" in taking on the Modi juggernaut, the Congress stood better chances in going alone.

Over the week, Yadav and Mayawati also put out press statements that specifically referred to the word "gathbandhan". 

Mayawati's press statement was in solidarity with Yadav amid reports that the CBI might question him on investigations into a mining scam that allegedly took place when he was chief minister. "Don't be shaken," she advised him.

Yadav returned the favour when he put out a press release to condemn Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks at a rally in Agra on Mayawati, "forgetting" an attack on her by Samajwadi Party workers in 1995 for "political gains". "The PM is scared of the alliance," said Yadav.

In Agra, Modi sought to drive a wedge between the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party when he said that the two parties which could not see eye to eye were joining hands.

Last year, Yadav and Mayawati decided to bury their differences and pool in their resources to contest three bypolls and won all. It gave them hope that if they team up, they can pull voters away from the BJP. 

The mahagathbandhan arithmetic had worked in the bypolls as a consolidation of OBC, Dalit and Muslim votes powered joint opposition candidates to victory in Gorakhpur, Phulpur and Kairana last year. 

If they try to replicate their success in the 2019 national polls, it might upset the apple cart of the BJP, which recently lost three major state elections, feel analysts.

A senior BJP leader, when contacted, sought to play down the SP-BSP tie-up as "opportunistic" politics and expressed confidence that the saffron party will come out with flying colours on the plank of development as it believed in 'sab ka saath, sab ka vikas'.             PTI
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Hello Jammu News at 1:25:00 PM 0

The Assembly poll results in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh mark the "beginning of a change", NCP chief Sharad Pawar said Wednesday, dubbing the outcome as "rejection" of the BJP-led government's policies.


Mumbai, Dec 12 (PTI) The Assembly poll results in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh mark the "beginning of a change", NCP chief Sharad Pawar said Wednesday, dubbing the outcome as "rejection" of the BJP-led government's policies.

Pawar, who turned 78 on Wednesday, said his party would support the Congress and also suggested the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to throw their weight behind the Rahul Gandhi-led party.

Referring to the constant criticism of Rahul Gandhi by the BJP, the former Union minister said people did not like the Congress president being "ridiculed".

The Congress dislodged the BJP from power in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and emerged as the single largest party in Madhya Pradesh.

"People have expressed disappointment against the Modi government... the Assembly poll results mark the beginning of a change... people rejected the anti-farmers, anti-traders policies of Modi," Pawar told reporters here.

On the Shiv Sena's frequent criticism of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said the Uddhav Thackeray-led party may be critical of its senior ally, but the two may come together for elections in the future.

He made the remarks after meeting party leaders and workers who had turned up to greet him on his birthday. 



Pawar also alleged that the Narendra Modi government took the decision of demonetisation without consulting the Reserve Bank of India.

People did not like the Modi government's attack on such institutions, he claimed.

Prime Minister Modi had announced invalidation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 old currency notes on November 8, 2016.


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Hello Jammu News at 12:28:00 PM 0

In a shot in the arm for the Congress, the Samajwadi Party Wednesday announced its support to Rahul Gandhi's party to form government in Madhya Pradesh. The announcement by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav came less than an hour after Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati made a similar offer to the Congress for government formation in the Hindi heartland state of Madhya Pradesh.


New Delhi, Dec 12 (PTI) In a shot in the arm for the Congress, the Samajwadi Party Wednesday announced its support to Rahul Gandhi's party to form government in Madhya Pradesh.

The announcement by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav came less than an hour after Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati made a similar offer to the Congress for government formation in the Hindi heartland state of Madhya Pradesh.

"The SP supports the Congress to form government in MP," Yadav tweeted in Hindi.

The Congress, which was locked in a tantalising see-saw battle with the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, has emerged as the single-largest party with 114 seats after the vote count ended on Wednesday morning, according to the State Election Commission Office.

The party is, however, two short of the simple majority mark, 116 seats, in the 230-member Assembly. The BJP was close behind with 109 seats.

The Bahujan Samaj Party won two seats and the Samajwadi Party one. Independents bagged four seats.


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Lucknow, Oct 12 (PTI) Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav Friday shared the stage with brother Shivpal Yadav, who has recently formed the Samajwadi Secular Morcha (SSM), at a programme organised on the death anniversary of socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia.


Last month, Mulayam had appeared at an SP rally in the national capital, along with his son and party president Akhilesh Yadav.

Addressing the gathering at Friday's programme, Mulayam highlighted Lohia's ideologies and urged the youth to follow his path and "fight against wrongdoings".

"Lohiaji taught us that if an elder brother does anything wrong, he should also be protested," he said.

Shivpal later told the media that he had the "blessings" of his elder brother Mulayam.

"It is our responsibility to carry forward Lohia's ideologies. When netaji (Mulayam) is with us, we will bring in a new revolution and change in the country," he said, adding that he would not go for any "pact" with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh.

"We will carry forward Lohia's ideologies and fight communalism. We will not do any pact with the BJP. Our fight is with the BJP," Shivpal added.

"I hope netaji will contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls on our ticket. We have already decided to support him from wherever he contests," he said.

On the expansion plans of his newly-formed outfit, Shivpal said, "The first conference of the SSM, the expansion of which is already going on, will be held next month in Lucknow." 

"We are moving ahead with our socialist agenda and working to strengthen our organisation," he added.

The founder of the SSM had earlier said he was ready to contest all the 80 parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh, except Mainpuri where Mulayam will be in the fray, in the 2019 polls.

Shivpal was unceremoniously removed from the post of SP state president after his nephew Akhilesh assumed charge as the party's national president.

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Lucknow, Aug 28 : Samajwadi Party MLA Shivpal Yadav, who has been sidelined by his party, did not attend a scheduled meeting with top BJP leaders, expelled SP leader Amar Singh said today.
"I have spoken to top BJP leaders for Shivpal. The time (of meeting) was also fixed but he did not turn up. Now, I have no political responsibility for him. I am not in touch with him," he said at a press conference here.

When asked to give more details, Singh said, "He (Shivpal) lives nearby, you (media) can talk to him."

Yadav had recently said he was "still waiting for some responsibility" to be assigned to him by the Samajwadi Party (SP) as he cannot remain "neglected" for long and will have to decide his future course of action.

"I want that we should contest the coming Lok Sabha elections together...For the past one-and-half years, I am waiting for some responsibility to be assigned to me, but so far the party has not assigned any responsibility. How long can I be neglected," he had said in Etawah.

He had also said if the 2019 polls were fought together, it would have a "positive impact" on the common man.PTI

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Lucknow May 31 :  The opposition's joint candidate, Rashtriya Lok Dal's Tabassum Hasan, took a lead of over 37,000 votes in the Kairana Lok Sabha by-election in Uttar Pradesh after the 11th round of counting, officials said.

In the Noorpur assembly by-election in the state, Samajwadi Party's Naeemul Hasan was leading by over 3,000 votes after 17 round of counting, they said.

After 11 rounds of counting, Hasan polled 2,31,965 votes while her nearest rival, BJP's Mriganka Singh, got 1,94,875 votes, the election office here said.

The Kairana seat had fallen vacant following the death of Mriganka Singh's father, BJP MP Hukum Singh.

Hasan is also supported by the Congress, Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.

Counting of votes for the Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur Assembly by-elections began this morning amid tight security arrangements.

Polling for the high-stakes by-elections to the two constituencies was held on Monday.PTI
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Lucknow, Nov 27: After the poll debacle early this year in Uttar Pradesh amid bickering in political stalwart Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family, serious introspection is taking place in Samajwadi Party under the leadership of former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
The party is re-drawing strategies to balance political equations in the changed scenario, and inducting young, educated and articulate youngsters in an effort to depart from the common perception that it was only interested in promoting people from just one caste and pampering just one section of the minority communities.
One such youngster who was recently inducted by the party is 34-year-old scion of Raja of Mahmudabad’s son Dr Ali Khan Mahmudabad.
In an exclusive tete-a-tete in his sprawling ancestral property Mahmudabad House in Lucknow, Ali, 
“There is a realisation in Samajwadi Party leadership that the canvas needs to be much larger and the scope much broader. I, for one, am completely against religious politics. It is an easy recipe for disaster. If you base politics on religion then you are promoting antagonistic identity politics which will inevitably detract from real issues.” UNI
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Etawah, Sept 11: Samajwadi Party national general secretary and leader of the party in the Rajya Sabha Ram Gopal Yadav has alleged that the BJP and the Central government was trying to wipe out the opposition from the country. " The growth of the country has gone down to its extreme, GST has created all problems for the common people and unemployment has touched the record. But still the Centre was trying its best to wipe out the opposition in the country," he added. Addressing a function here last night, Prof.Yadav claiming that opposition is a required aspect in the democracy alleged that the government was not at all want the opposition and to hear its criticism. " Bihar's Lalu Prasad Yadav when opposed them, now his entire family had been made criminal by the government," the SP leader said. Prof Yadav even charged the BJP of threatening the SP legislators due to which several MLCs had resigned and joined the BJP recently. Lauding the country's first PM Jawahar Lal Nehru and even Indira Gandhi, he said they too did not attacked the opposition in such a way if we remove the era of emergency in the country. Supporting the agitation of Shiksha Mitras, he said Samajwadi Party government had given jobs to these youths and now the BJP government should make a law to accommodate them in the government jobs. Narrating about the problems of the traders and common people over the GST regime, he said that the government launched it without any preparation. He even said that the Centre has even failed in the international diplomacy due to which every day, Indian soldiers are being martyred. " BJP said during the assembly polls it alleged that the police stations are being run by SP goons, but now what happened, the BJP legislators and leaders are collecting money from everywhere. The present BJP government cancelled the tenders of the 6-lane expressway between Lucknow and Ballia and had derailed the developmental works," the SP leader said while adding that very soon the SP workers would agitate over the lack of developmental works in the state. The SP General secretary directed the district leaders to attend the state convention of the party at Lucknow on September 23 and the national convention at Agra on October 5. UNI




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Unnao, Aug 17 :  Samajwadi Party president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his hundreds of supporters, including several MLCs, were detained today when they were going to Auriyya to meet jailed party leader Pradeep Yadav. Mr Yadav tried to escape the police dragnet but failed to do so when he was detained on the Lucknow-Agra expressway in Unnao at Hasanganj toll plaza. He was later taken to the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dhaura along with his supporters. Police also used mild force to disperse the SP activists when they tried to go ahead with breaking security barriers. Mr Yadav, talking to reporters after his detention, alleged that the BJP government was violating the democratic norms and had stopped him from going to Auriyya to meet the party leaders. "We are slated to meet the jailed SP leaders peacefully, but the BJP government is crushing our democratic rights.' Mr Yadav started his journey to Auriyya in a cavalcade of 35 vehicles but after their detention all leaders were sent to the Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Dhaura. Along with the SP president, other MLCs who have been detained are Rajesh Yadav, Anand Bhadauria and around 50 senior leaders. Similarly in Kanpur too, several SP leaders, including its state president Naresh Uttam, MLA Amitabh Bajpai, MLC Sanjay Lathar, were also detained when they tried to go to Auriyya this morning. They were taken to Kanpur police lines. The SP leaders were on their way to Auriyya where yesterday major violence took place when SP leaders clashed with police during the filing of nominations for the district panchayat chairman bypolls. The SP activists had torched a vehicle of the BJP MLA after clashes broke out between the supporters of two candidates for the bypolls -- Dipu Singh of BJP and Sudhir Yadav alias Kallu Singh of SP. Later, the SP activists alleging partisan role of the police staged major violence in the area. Former SP MLA Pradeep Yadav was arrested along with other SP leaders after the violence and today Mr Yadav and other leaders had planned to go to Auriyya to meet him and other jailed leaders. UNI

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Lucknow, Aug 9 : Samajwadi Party general secretary and MLC Ashok Bajpai today resigned from the party and the Council. A close confidant of SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mr Bajpai tendered his resignation to Council Chairman Ramesh Yadav here. Mr Bajpai is the fifth MLC to resign from the Council within a fortnight, including four from the principal opposition SP. The SP leader, though had not joined the BJP like others who resigned from the MLC, said he was hurt with the treatment meted out to Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav and thus was resigning from the MLC. The MLC term of Mr Bajpai was to be expired on January 30, 2021. Surprisingly, all the four SP MLCs who had resigned were close to Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav. The three SP MLCs who had resigned earlier and joined the BJP are -- Bhukal Nawab, Yashwant Singh and Dr Sarojni Agarwal. The lone BSP MLC who resigned and joined the BJP was Thakur Jaiveer Singh. UNI

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Lucknow, Jul 29 : After operation Bihar and Gujarat, the BJP leadership has now made its inroads in Uttar Pradesh when two sitting Samajwadi Party and one of the Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) MLCs, resigned from the state Legislative Council just when BJP president Amit Shah reached the state capital today. Two SP MLCs Bhukkal Nawab and Yashwant Singh along with BSP member Thakur Jaiveer Singh have resigned from the membership of the Legislative Council, confirmed Council Speaker Ramesh Yadav here. All the three members resigned just when Mr Shah landed at the Lucknow airport at around 1000 hours this morning. According to sources, the BJP needed vacancies in the Legislative Council for the entry of its five ministers, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his two deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma along with Swantra Deo Singh and Mohsin Raza, by September 18 next. Now with these resignations, the total vacancy in the council will go up to four with one seat being already vacant. However, there are reports that another senior SP MLC Madhukar Jaitley may also resign. There is also a report that both Bukkal Nawab, Yashwant Singh and Thakur Jaiveer Singh could join the BJP in the presence of Mr Shah later in the day. The tenure of both the SP MLCs is up to July 6, 2022 but of the BSP MLCs is May 5, 2018. The sudden resignation spree in the SP and BSP comes just days after BJP's operation in Bihar to form the government with JD(U) and the resignation of Congress MLAs in Gujarat. (EDS: pick up suitably from earlier series) UNI

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Lucknow, Jul 29 :Senior Samajwadi Party MLC Bhukkal Nawab today tendered his resignation from the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. Mr Nawab told mediapersons here that he has handed over the resignation letter to council Chairman Ramesh Yadav. Though he did not mention any reason for his resignation, reports said that there were several cases of land grabbing pending against him beside cases of falsely receiving compensations on state government's land. UNI

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