Topic: SP

Any increase in vote share of Akhilesh Yadav’s SP and Mayawati’s BSP means decrease in BJP’s vote share.

Two BJP workers were arrested and six police officers were suspended in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district on Friday in connection with poll violence and the molestation of two Samajwadi Party's women cadres.

The health condition of senior Samajwadi Party leader and Lok Sabha member Azam Khan is critical yet under control, said a Lucknow hospital in a statement on Monday.

Samajwadi Party chief and former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav took a dig at Yogi Adityanath government and said it has been exposed in the Hathras rape-murder case and it will also face the same treatment in the false cases against SP leader and parliamentarian Azam Khan.

Hours after Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel promulgated the UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance 2020, former chief minister and Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav said his party will oppose the ordinance in the assembly.

Although said in anger, the open support given by Mayawati to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 28 October is no news. She is a partner in the current Uttar Pradesh government; and had twice before allied with BJP, who were willing to make her Chief Minister both times. But what is more notable in Mayawati's press conference was another point - the accusation that Yadavs carried out (caste) violence against Jatavs, who claim Yadava-hood.