LUCKNOW: BSP chief Mayawati removed her brother Anand Kumar, the party’s national vice president, from the post of national coordinator on Wednesday after he expressed reluctance to handle the additional responsibility given to him after his son Akash Anand was sacked and then expelled for alleged dissent.Mayawati picked Jat face Randhir Beniwal as co-national coordinator…
NEW DELHI: BSP national president Mayawati, in an all-India party meeting in Lucknow on Sunday, announced that nobody would be her successor in the party while she is alive. With this, she relieved her nephew, Akash Anand, of the twin responsibilities he previously held—being Mayawati‘s political successor and the BSP’s national coordinator. Her decision came…
NEW DELHI: During a key visit to his constituency Rae Bareli, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reignited political debates by questioning Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati‘s current electoral approach. Addressing Dalit students in Uttar Pradesh, Gandhi asked, “Behenji aajkal chunaav theek se kyun nahi lad rahi (Why is Mayawati not fighting polls properly these days)?“Reflecting…
SHAMLI: After 129 hearings over 11 years, a special MP-MLA court in Kairana found Samajwadi Party imposed a fine of Rs 100 Samajwadi Party MLA Nahid Hasan for making derogatory remarks against Narendra Modi and Mayawati during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, reports Sachin Sharma. The court said he would have to serve one-month imprisonment…
BSP chief Mayawati (File photo) NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday accused the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) of being “hand in glove” ahead of the November 13 bypolls for nine Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, where the BSP is contesting independently.In a press conference, Mayawati condemned the…
NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav engaged in a blame game over the reasons behind the dissolution of their alliance.While Mayawati claimed that Akhilesh stopped responding to calls from BSP leaders, the SP chief countered that Mayawati kept him uninformed about her decision to end the…
NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati stepped up her attack at the Congress over its silence on the Supreme Court‘s suggestion for the “creamy layer” provisions within the SC/ST quotas.Casting doubt on Congress’s pitch for caste census, the ex-Uttar Pradesh CM asked if the party would be able to impart legitimate rights to…
LUCKNOW: In a rare display of solidarity among one-time alliance partners who contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls together and then parted ways on a bitter note, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav came to the defence of BSP supremo Mayawati when a BJP MLA used derogatory words for her at a news channel debate. Mayawati reciprocated,…
LUCKNOW: Jatavs, the core of BSP’s vote base, stood by it in the Lok Sabha elections but Muslim voters didn’t despite being given a choice of candidates representing the community, party chief Mayawati said Wednesday in her first response to drawing a blank in UP.“People from my caste voted mostly for BSP and I am…
NEW DELHI: BSP supremo Mayawati on Tuesday removed nephew Akash Anand as her political heir and from party post till he becomes “more politically mature”. In a series of post on X, Mayawati said: “It is known that BSP, besides being a party, is also a movement for self-respect and self-esteem of Baba Saheb Dr….
