Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav informed the media that he is going to appeal the Election Commission (EC) to send the people of Gujarat campaigning for the Uttar Pradesh state assembly election in Uttar Pradesh back. While speaking to media persons at Lucknow he claimed while addressing the media in Lucknow, “They (people from Gujarat) have reached here (Uttar Pradesh) a month ago. Their training was conducted in Lucknow. It was basically ‘training the trainer’. It m...Read More

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday said he wished to see Narendra Modi back as prime minister, remarks which left the opposition squirming in Lok Sabha but were greeted by cheers from the treasury benches with the PM acknowledging Yadav's "blessings" with folded hands. "I wish that all members come back to the House," Yadav said during the last sitting of the 16th Lok Sabha, drawing applause from the BJP members who are in a majority in the House. He said...Read More

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India has recognised Akhilesh Yadav faction a ‘real’ Samajwadi Party, allotting it the party symbol of ‘Cycle’. Akhilesh faction is entangled in a bitter dispute with his father Mulayam Singh’s faction over the reins of the party, its name and election symbol. “The group led by Akhilesh Yadav is the Samajwadi Party and is entitled to use its name and reserved symbol Bicycle,” news agency PTI quoted the Election Commission as saying in its or...Read More

Lucknow: The hi-tech customised rath of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today broke down after barely covering a kilometre, forcing him to switch to his official vehicle to continue his state-wide tour. After leaving the La-Martinere College grounds and hitting Lohia Path at a stone's throw distance from the venue, the blazing red 10-wheel Mercedes 'rath' developed some technical snag following which Akhilesh shifted to his official SUV. The CM waited anxiously for the repair work to be over...Read More

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party's Rajya Sabha MP Munavvar Saleem's personal assistant Farhat Khan, who was arrested today in connection with the espionage racket, was in touch with Pakistani intelligence operatives for the last 18 years and was leaking sensitive documents and information, police said. "Farhat Khan was in touch with Pakistani intelligence operatives for the last 18 years. He used to be paid Rs 20,000 for the information and documents he shared with them," said a senior police offic...Read More

New Delhi: BJP today described the ongoing feud in the ruling Yadav family in Uttar Pradesh as a "high voltage drama" aimed at keeping the media and public attention away from the "failures" of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. It also latched onto a High Court order, which criticised the state government for not taking adequate preventive health measures, to lash out at the Samajwadi Party and BSP, saying while the state's health has gone done, the wealth of Yadav clan and Mayawati and her kin ...Read More

Lucknow:Acrimony, bitter exchanges and personal attacks today marked a meeting of Samajwadi Party leaders, bringing to the fore the high-voltage power struggle in the first family with Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav trading barbs while the chief minister was accused of planning to float a party, a charge he denied. Cut up with his son, Mulayam Singh Yadav put up a strong defence of his brother Shivpal Yadav, who was sacked by Akhilesh yesterday from his cabinet, and General...Read More