LUCKNOW: After a series of flip-flops, Samajwadi Party declared on Wednesday Akhilesh Yadav as the party’s candidate for Kannauj Lok Sabha seat, replacing his nephew, Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, whose candidature was announced on April 22.A post from the party’s official X handle said the SP national president would “file his nomination papers for Kannauj…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday dropped hints indicating that he might contest the Lok Sabha polls from Kannuj, which is considered the party’s stronghold. Currently, the SP has fielded Akhilesh’s nephew Tej Pratap Yadav from Kannauj. Tej Pratap is the grandson of Ratan Singh, brother of party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav.When…
LUCKNOW: A flexi hoarding came up outside the Samajwadi Party headquarters in Lucknow on Saturday morning with an appeal to all citizens to mourn the death of ‘former MLA’ Mukhtar Ansari and not to celebrate Eid this year. The giant hoarding was later removed by the district administration.The hoarding came up a day before Akhilesh…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday targeted Uttar Pradesh‘s Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt over gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari‘s death in jail, demanding that all such suspicious fatalities in custody be probed under the supervision of a Supreme Court judge. BSP chief Mayawati also pressed for a high-level probe into Ansari’s death.“UP is passing through…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday targeted Uttar Pradesh‘s Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt over gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari‘s death in jail, demanding that all such suspicious fatalities in custody be probed under the supervision of a Supreme Court judge. BSP chief Mayawati also pressed for a high-level probe into Ansari’s death.“UP is passing through…
BAREILLY: The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday rejected nomination papers of senior SP leader Azam Khan‘s close aides, Asim Raja and Abdul Salam who wanted to contest from Rampur.Raja and Salam had filed their papers as SP and independent candidates respectively, after the party declared Muhibullah Nadwi, an imam of a mosque in Delhi’s Parliament…
BHOPAL: Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday called Congress a ‘chalu’ (cunning) party and accused it of ‘betrayal’, more indication that the INDIA opposition bloc lies in tatters in the Madhya Pradesh election.Addressing an election rally in Jatara assembly seat of Tikamgarh district, Akhilesh said, “If you are not getting ration, then why should…
