Ram Gopal Yadav

Samajwadi Party MP Ram Gopal Yadav used his support staff to leave his Delhi residence due to heavy rainfall causing floods in many areas

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Friday said the Congress and the Akhilesh Yadav-led party have finalised their seat-sharing agreement in Uttar Pradesh. SP will declare more candidates soon for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Asked whether the Congress can go with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in UP, Yadav said the two parties have already reached an agreement. "We have declared 16 seats. We will declare more seats in a couple of days. So on and so forth. The Congress and the SP have reached a final agreement in Uttar Pradesh," Yadav said. SP leader Dimple Yadav, meanwhile, said there should not be any further delay in deciding candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, and stressed that the upcoming polls will be about "saving the Constitution". "This is an important election. It is an election to save the Constitution. There should not be any further delay," she said. "Election is fought at the grassroots level. If candidates are decided in time they will get time to put up

Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav on Tuesday alleged the move to withdraw Rs 2,000 currency notes from circulation has been taken to divert attention from the ruling BJP's defeat in the Karnataka assembly elections. Yadav was referring to the Reserve Bank of India's announcement last week to withdraw the Rs 2,000 currency notes from circulation. The RBI gave the public time till September 30 to either deposit such notes in accounts or exchange them at banks. Responding to queries on the move, Yadav said, "They (BJP) do not understand what should be done and what should not be done. They have become disoriented. This has been done because they lost badly in the Karnataka elections. This new trick is to divert the attention of the people." Dubbing the move as a "Tughlaqi farmaan (diktat)", the SP leader said, "During our student days, we studied in our history class that Muhammad bin Tughlaq first shifted his capital from Delhi to Daulatabad and then back to Delhi sayi

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Wednesday refuted Home Minister Amit Shah's statements on the SP's stand on the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Wednesday filed his nomination papers for the November 9 Rajya Sabha election, officials said. He reached the Vidhan Bhawan along with party president Akhilesh Yadav and other senior leaders to file his candidature. The election to 10 seats of Rajya Sabha in Uttar Pradesh is scheduled for November 9. Ram Gopal Yadav, whose tenure in the Upper House of Parliament is due to end next month, was the only candidate to file the nomination papers on Wednesday, they said. The main opposition Samajwadi Party with 48 legislators can ensure the victory of one candidate. At present, there are 304 MLAs from the BJP, 18 from the BSP, nine from the Apna Dal, seven from the Congress and four from the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party. Five MLAs are Independents or from small parties. The tenure of 10 Rajya Sabha members from the state is coming to an end on November 25. These include four members of the Samajwadi Party, Ram Gopal Yadav, Chandra Pal Singh Y

The names of leaders including Jyotiraditya Scindia, Home Minister Bala Bachchan, Umang Singhar and Ajay Singh have been making the rounds for some time now

Mulayam hinted that all issues would be resolved at the earliest

The development comes a day after Ram Gopal's fiery speech in Parliament, which featured a warning for the government over the currency ban

Ram Gopal was earlier today reinstated in the party as General Secretary

The decision was taken by SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.

He was expelled from the party for six years by party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav

Ram Gopal said he will remain with Akhilesh and ensure he is appointed chief minister again