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TopicSwami Prasad Maurya

Topic: Swami Prasad Maurya

BJP ‘coup’ in Samajwadi Party gives UP a taste of Bihar and Maharashtra politics

Eight Samajwadi Party MLAs defecting and voting for BJP Rajya Sabha candidates is nothing short of a ‘great betrayal’. Will the SP-Congress INDIA coalition, without the BSP, mount a challenge?

OBC leader who stirred Ramcharitmanas row, serial party hopper — who is Swami Prasad Maurya

Lucknow: The last time Swami Prasad Maurya launched a new political party, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) less than a month later....

‘Partition happened because of Hindu Mahasabha, not Jinnah’, says SP’s Swami Prasad Maurya

Former UP minister adds that 'those talking about Hindu Rashtra are country's enemies', adds Modi should be concerned about ensuring jobs for Indians than about Israel-Hamas war.

After sparking row with claim that Badrinath Temple was ‘Buddhist mutt’, SP’s Maurya hits out at BJP

Coming amid Gyanvapi Mosque row, Swami Prasad Maurya’s comment has drawn flak from UP & Uttarakhand BJP leaders. He also alleged BJP ‘raises masjid-mandir issues before polls’. 

‘Mile Mulayam-Kanshi Ram…’ The Rath Yatra-era slogan for SP-BSP unity that’s got UP MLC booked

Samajwadi Party leader & member of UP legislative council Swami Prasad Maurya has been booked for 'outraging reli­gious feelings' after invoking slogan coined during 1993 UP polls.

Why Samajwadi Party has taken a U-turn in Ramcharitmanas row — ‘shudra’ politics could pay off

SP had distanced itself from Swami Prasad Maurya’s controversial remarks on verses in Hindu text. Now it seems to be shifting the debate from religion to caste with eye on LS polls.

Maurya hits out at ‘contractors of religion’ & ‘community that thinks abuse is its right’

SP leader and former UP minister Swami Prasad Maurya has been in news for his comments on verses of Ramcharitmanas that he believes are hurtful to ‘97 per cent of people’ in India.

SP distances itself from MLC Maurya’s Ramcharitmanas remark — ‘we follow principles of Lord Ram’

FIR lodged against SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya over remarks on Hindu text, in Lucknow. Senior leader Shivpal Yadav has said MLC's views don't represent party stand.

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The speech PM Modi should deliver this Independence Day

For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason most of my initiatives turn into disasters.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

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.