NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday alleged that BJP has set a “pattern of encounters” and reffered to the deaths of crime suspects in police shootouts as “fake”.Akhilesh Yadav outlined the alleged pattern in a post on X, stating, “A pattern of encounters has been set in BJP rule: Pick someone first,…
NEW DELHI: After a week marked by flip-flops over forging an alliance in Haryana, Sunday was marked by a ‘take it or leave it’ offer from Congress to AAP. A likelihood of a tie-up in Haryana between the two parties is hinged on AAP accepting Congress’s twin conditions on number of seats and specific constituencies.Congress…
NEW DELHI: Amid reports of Congress-AAP tie up for Haryana elections, grand old party leader Deepak Babaria said on Wednesday that the alliance will only happen if there’s a “win-win” situation for both the parties. He said that the agreement would be finalised within two-three days, else the party would give up on the alliance…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister who often has held the opposition of admiring Jinnah, picked a similar theme on Wednesday to flay the pack coming all-out at the government on a slew of issues. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath accused the opposition of fearmongering and disturbing the “social fabric” by dividing the nation along the…
NEW DELHI: In a sharp critique of the Uttar Pradesh government‘s decision to rename seven railway stations in the Northern Railways, Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav took to social media to slam the administration, urging them to prioritise railway safety over name changes.In his post on X (formerly Twitter), Yadav wrote, “And when you get…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party leader Juhie Singh on Monday demanded “concrete evidence” in Kannauj rape attempt case in which Uttar Pradesh Police arrested former party leader Nawab Singh Yadav. Clarifying that Yadav was an “old leader of Samajwadi Party”, Singh questioned, “What kind of job the girl was looking for”.“It is an accusation against an…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party’s Dalit functionaries have dubbed the proposal of sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes a ploy to “divide and rule”, arguing that the party stands strongly for the unity of the community as prescribed by Ambedkar.Veteran MPs RK Chaudhary and Awadhesh Prasad told TOI that division of SCs into sub-groups will sound the death…
NEW DELHI: The debate over the Waqf Act Amendment Bill took an unexpected turn as Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav locked horns with Union home minister Amit Shah. The exchange began when Akhilesh alleged that the rights of the Lok Sabha Speaker were under threat, a claim that quickly drew a rebuttal from Shah.Akhilesh Yadav,…
Image used for representative purpose only AYODHYA: The 12-year-old Ayodhya gangrape survivor has been admitted to Queen Mary’s hospital in Lucknow for treatment. Ayodhya CMO Sanjay Jain said she was referred to Lucknow as the women’s hospital in Ayodhya does not have the facility to provide adequate treatment to her. Jain added that a team…
AYODHYA: A three-member BJP delegation on Sunday met the 12-year-old rape survivor and her family members here, and urged the state government to raise the compensation to the girl’s kin from Rs 5 lakh to 25 lakh.Rajya Sabha MP Sangeeta Balwant Bind, who was part of the delegation, said her blood boiled when she heard…
