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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicSamajwadi Party

Topic: Samajwadi Party

How Akhilesh Yadav could change the SP’s Yadav-party image

The Samajwadi Party continues to be seen as a party of only Yadavs and Muslims, both communities that tend to alienate other voters.

It’s Mayawati’s turn now to set the tone for grand opposition alliance

BSP chief said her party’s ties with Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party won’t be hurt by the Rajya Sabha poll result.

Sanjay Nishad: The OBC leader who engineered Samajwadi Party’s win in Yogi bastion

The president of the two-year-old party worked hard to mobilise his community in Gorakhpur and the rest of eastern UP.

The BJP is paying the price for alienating Dalits, UP bypoll results show

Mayawati’s unexpected decision to support the SP in the bypolls was an act of desperation — not just her own, but also that of Dalit voters.

Gorakhpur bypoll: Make no mistake, this is Yogi Adityanath’s defeat

The Gorakhnath temple has been at the centre of local politics and only the candidates believed to “have its blessings” have ever won elections from there.

Bypoll trends: 2019 ‘rehearsal’ going awfully wrong for Yogi’s BJP in Gorakhpur, Phulpur

The trends led to uproarious scenes in the UP assembly as SP members celebrated, leading speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit to adjourn the house briefly.

Outspoken in Parliament, star campaigner: What makes Jaya Bachchan indispensible to SP

The actor-politician has filed her RS nomination for fourth time, has been vocal about issues related to women and children inside and outside Parliament.

After stints in every major party in UP, Naresh Agarwal hops over to BJP now

Naresh Agarwal’s decline in the SP started last year and Akhilesh Yadav was said to be adamant about not nominating him to the Rajya Sabha again.

Why a bypoll in UP heartland is more important for BJP than Karnataka elections

If the SP-BSP alliance can’t win Phulpur, we should be ready to see the BJP repeat its Uttar Pradesh performance in 2019.

BSP’s support to SP may open up a world of possibilities in Indian politics

Mayawati’s party has decided to support candidates from hated rival SP in two Lok Sabha bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, to defeat the BJP.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.