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Thursday, August 14, 2025
TopicSP-BSP alliance

Topic: SP-BSP alliance

BSP will contest Lok Sabha elections solo, may consider post-poll alliance, says party chief Mayawati

Talking to reporters at the state party office on her birthday, Mayawati categorically denied reports about her retirement from politics

With gathbandhan politics in turmoil, is the ‘vote transfer’ theory a myth?

Mayawati Tuesday hinted the BSP will contest assembly bypolls in UP alone, after blaming SP's Akhilesh Yadav for the alliance’s drubbing in 2019 elections.

Why Akhilesh Yadav & SP have reason to feel ‘cheated’ by Mayawati & her BSP

BSP couldn’t transfer its vote to SP in 12 seats, including 4 where Akhilesh Yadav’s family members were contesting. But the corresponding figure for SP was 14.

Why Dimple Yadav touching Mayawati’s feet still riles upper caste Indians

Dimple Yadav’s gesture challenges the class system of Hindu society which categorises women and backwards of all castes as low and inferior.

Making Mayawati India’s prime minister in 2019 will fix its casteist past and present

Whites in the US showed their humane side by twice electing Barack Obama, a black minority. Can India’s upper castes ever support a Dalit PM?

DU survey shows Akhilesh-Maya more popular than Modi, Priyanka is a failed gambit

Survey conducted on 38,000 Uttar Pradesh residents by DU students finds SP-BSP alliance has a definite edge over BJP.

Why Congress, and not SP-BSP, is prime target of Modi and Yogi in UP

BJP's 2019 hopes rest hugely on a 22% group in UP, which helped it bag 42% vote share and 71 seats in 2014. But which group is it, and what is Congress up to?

The signalling of Mulayam-Mayawati grand union — water, blessings and the central chair

Arch-rivals Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav shared the stage in Mainpuri Friday, and urged party workers to put the past behind and defeat the BJP.

I-T raids before elections? Mayawati’s BSP has been there already

Two months after BJP won UP polls, the EC gave clean chit to BSP, releasing its Rs 104 crore made unusable during polls due to ED's post note ban scrutiny.

Mayawati, Akhilesh fear ‘show-stealer’ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra who goes for ‘Boat Pe Charcha’

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On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.