The first lot will include 3.75 lakh Samsung phones while the rest will be of the Lava brand. (Shutterstock) Government officials said the first phase of the scheme will be rolled out from October for which Rs 372 crore has already been sanctioned The Uttar Pradesh government will distribute over 25 lakh free smartphones to…
The proposed women’s reservation bill, which guarantees 33% seats for women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies, is tipped to be introduced in the ongoing special session of Parliament. (PTI/File) Amid the credit war between the BJP and Congress over the women’s reservation bill, at least four political parties – Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal,…
Samajwadi Party workers celebrate the victory of party candidate Sudhakar Singh in the Ghosi constituency by-election, in Lucknow. (PTI) Political analysts said BJP was informed of the undercurrent due to Dara Singh Chauhan’s image of a turncoat but it ignored the resentment and this eventually led to the party’s defeat Samajwadi Party registered a big…
There seems to be more trouble in store for Azam Khan after the Income Tax department on Wednesday carried out raids at more than three dozen properties of the Samajwadi Party (SP) leader across six districts in Uttar Pradesh. Most of the raids were associated with the leader’s Al Jauhar Trust. The raids, which began…
A security personnel stands guard as voters cast their vote for the Ghosi assembly bypoll on September 5. (Image: PTI) BJP candidate Dara Singh Chauhan was previously elected MLA from Ghosi on an SP ticket in the 2022 assembly elections, but recently resigned and joined the saffron camp necessitating the bypoll in Ghosi The Samajwadi…
Mulayam Singh Yadav said in 2004 that he would replace ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ if he came to power. File pic/News18 The Samajwadi Party under Mulayam Singh Yadav’s leadership also released a manifesto on April 9, 2004, ahead of the Lok Sabha Polls, stating that in ancient times the name of the country was Bharat, which…
Bypoll 2023 LIVE Updates: Voting for the by-elections to seven assembly seats in six states is underway on Tuesday, amid heavy deployment of security personnel. The by-elections in two seats in Tripura (Dhanpur and Boxanagar), and one seat each in Kerala (Puthuppally), Jharkhand (Dumri), West Bengal (Dhupguri), Uttar Pradesh (Ghosi), and Uttarakhand (Bageshwar) are expected to serve as a litmus test for the Opposition’s…
Voting for the Ghosi assembly bypoll will take place on Tuesday, setting the stage for the first electoral showdown between the BJP and an INDIA bloc constituent in Uttar Pradesh. Formed recently, opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) members such as the Congress, the CPI(M), the CPI and the RLD have extended support to…
Leaders of at least 26 opposition parties, under the umbrella of the INDIA alliance, on Thursday held talks in Mumbai to chart out a concrete roadmap and evolve a structure for cooperation among the alliance partners to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. All top opposition leaders including…
Mayawati said both NDA and INDIA alliances comprised mostly of parties that are anti-poor, casteist, communal, and pro-rich and thus her party had decided to go solo. (PTI) In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BSP partnered with SP to form an anti-BJP ‘Mahagathbandhan’ along with Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD). However, the alliance failed to leave…