With eyes on the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections early next year, Lok Sabha MP from Nagina and Aazad Samaj Party chief to hit the road next month and cover all 75 districts
BSP leaders say western Uttar Pradesh has traditionally been the party’s stronghold, with a large Dalit-Muslim population, especially Jatavs, considered party's core voters.
Beginning with eastern UP, ruling party plans to shift its focus to western region, where Jatavs form a significant voter base. It also looks to counter opposition's PDA narrative.
UP govt issued notification Sunday banning caste references in police documents, vehicles and rallies, in compliance with HC order that described caste glorification as 'anti-national'.
Siddharth, father-in-law of her nephew Akash Anand, now BSP national coordinator, was expelled in Feb over ‘anti-party activities’. On X, he promised to ‘never repeat’ his mistake.
The sons claim that every time they get bail, Uttar Pradesh police files new case to keep them languishing in jail. Iqbal also faces CBI, ED probe in sand mining cases.
Though Mayawati did not announce Akash as her political heir again, a new post was created for him. Senior party functionaries say BSP never had any such post.
For now, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo makes it clear that Akash will no longer be her political successor. No room for forgiveness to Ashok Siddharth, she asserts.
Ishan, the younger brother of Akash Anand, had also attended a press conference Wednesday organised on the occasion of the BSP supremo’s 69th birthday in Lucknow.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on 10 May 2026 was an appeal to citizens to help protect the rupee by conserving foreign exchange.
Speaking at IAF think-tank seminar, Air Marshal Dixit was backed by Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh, who said unmanned aerial systems are no longer just the eyes in the sky but ‘claws in the sky’.
These elections mark completion of BJP-secular party divide purely on Hindu-Muslim basis. BJP’s rivals are increasingly looking like Muslim parties though their leaders are all Hindus.
Pretty dumb of him to think that way. Tamil Nadu unfortunately has a strong fandom culture amongst youth. It’s not the same in UP. Secondly, you are not “famous”.
Pretty dumb of him to think that way. Tamil Nadu unfortunately has a strong fandom culture amongst youth. It’s not the same in UP. Secondly, you are not “famous”.