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While calling off the alliance with SP, BSP chief Mayawati has blamed an erosion of SP’s Yadav votes. The fact, however, is that BSP did gain from the alliance in the Lok Sabha polls. What explains the announcement? The biggest political alignment ahead of the Lok Sabha elections — the gathbandhan between the Samajwadi Party […]
A day after the Lok Sabha elections ended and exit polls predicted gains for the SP-BSP alliance in politically crucial state Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav called on Mayawati at her residence in Lucknow on Monday. The meeting comes two days ahead of the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha elections and in the backdrop […]
Varanasi, the seat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will go to polls along with 12 other parliamentary seats on May 19, the last phase of the ongoing general elections. The state voted in all the seven phases of the month-long polls. All 13 constituencies lie in the eastern region of the state. In 2014, the […]
Rajbhar, who is still a cabinet minister in the BJP-led government in the state, said he will take a final call on his party's alliance with the BJP after the polls. Nimbly crisscrossing political lines, SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar is the BJP’s disgruntled ally in Uttar Pradesh who proclaimed his support for the SP-BSP […]
At an election rally in Kushinagar, Modi dared Mayawati to withdraw support from the Congress government in Rajasthan in view of Alwar gangrape if she really cared for women and girls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BSP chief Mayawati faced off over the Alwar gangrape Sunday. Modi accused Mayawati of shedding “crocodile tears” over the […]
She was responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who recently said that the SP-BSP alliance will not last long and would fall apart once the election results are out on May 23. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday said that the ‘gathbandhan’ in Uttar Pradesh would […]
As the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh head into 41 crucial seats in its eastern region, the role of the Congress in the electoral arithmetic came into question on Thursday, sparked by comments by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra the previous day that her party was helping the Samajwadi Party (SP)-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) alliance in […]
Addressing an election meeting in Shohratgarh area of Siddhartnagar district, she said, "All matches are not made in heaven, some are made out of fear of Modi." Union minister Anupriya Patel, whose Apna Dal (Sonelal) is a constituent of the BJP-led NDA, Thursday took a dig at the SP-BSP alliance terming it like “oil and […]
“Didn’t they (BJP) form a government with Mehbooba Mufti in Kashmir? Didn’t they release the stone-pelters? Weren’t they the ones who released Masood Azhar in the past?” ask Raghunath Singh, a middle-aged farmer. “I HAVE never voted for the cycle. But there is an alliance this time, so I will vote for it,” says Ravindra, […]
In 2014, the BJP’s most spectacular margins of victory in UP were in the west partly because of sharp polarisation in the wake of communal violence in Muzaffarnagar in 2013. The BJP is clearly nervous as eight constituencies in western UP, Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad and Gautam Budh Nagar go to the […]