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Yadav sees 'wave of change' in MP; alleges Cong inaction on Mandal report

Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday claimed a "wave of change" was visible in the BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and blasted the saffron outfit for making "false promises" to voters to retain power. Attacking his INDIA bloc ally Congress, Yadav said the Grand Old Party, when it headed the government at the Centre, did not implement the Mandal Commission recommendations. A wave of change was prevailing in Madhya Pradesh and SP candidates are going to win elections with a record margin," he stated. The former Uttar Pradesh CM was addressing an election meeting to drum up support for his party candidate from Niwari, Meera Yadav, on the last day of campaigning for the November 17 assembly polls. The SP has fielded 71 candidates in MP, which has a 230-member assembly, after it failed to enter into a pre-poll truck with the Congress - the largest constituent of the opposition INDIA grouping. "The Congress and the BJP formed governments in Madhya Pradesh but people ...

Akhilesh questions Congress' sincerity over conducting caste census

"Why do they want to do so today? Because they know that their traditional vote bank is not with them," he added

Swami Prasad Maurya questions birth of Goddess Lakshmi, invites controversy

Samajwadi Party Leader Swami Prasad Maurya has questioned the birth of Hindu goddess Lakshmi and said "How can Lakshmi be born with four hands?In a post on X, Swami Prasad Maurya said that every child born anywhere in the world has two hands, two legs, two ears, and two eyes and if a child with eight hands, and ten hands has not been born till now, how can goddess Lakshmi be born with four hands."While worshipping and honouring wife on the occasion of Deepotsav, I say that every child born in every religion, caste, race, colour and country of the whole world has two hands, two legs, two ears, two eyes and a nose with two holes. There is only a head, stomach and back. If a child with four hands, eight hands, ten hands, twenty hands and a thousand hands has not been born till date, then how can Lakshmi be born with four hands?" Swami Prasad said on X."If you want to worship Goddess Lakshmi, then worship and respect your wife who is a goddess in a true sense because she fulfils the ...

Demonetisation 'biggest corruption' in world, says Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday termed demonetisation as the "biggest corruption" in the world. Speaking to reporters at the party office in Lucknow, Yadav said, "Demonetisation done by the BJP government (in 2016) is the biggest corruption in the world. To compensate for the fraud and loss of Rs 15 lakh crore in the country, this government (of the BJP) had taken the decision of demonetisation as a well thought out strategy." "The government got all the money of the public deposited in the banks. (It) took the money of the poor to fill the coffers of the rich. The prime minister had said that demonetisation will end corruption and terrorism. Inflation will be reduced. "But his claims proved to be false. Even after demonetisation, corruption did not reduce, inflation did not stop and terrorism did not end. Today, inflation, unemployment and corruption are at their peak in the country," he said. The SP further said, "As per statistics, even today, the cash market in

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Akhilesh targets UP govt over stray cattle menace, asks for total deaths

Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh government to reveal the number of deaths due to attack by stray cattle in the past five years under the BJP's rule. Targeting the BJP government in the state, Yadav asked if the party leaders' statements on solving the stray cattle issue before the elections were genuine promises or just political rhetoric. "The BJP government in the state should issue a clarification on the stray cattle issue. How many people were killed or injured due to stray animals during BJP rule? How many of those who died due to stray animals were compensated and how much was given? How many stray animals are there in the cow shelters that have been opened?" Yadav asked in a post on X. "Were the statements on finding a solution to this problem within fifteen days of the elections a promise or just rhetoric?" Yadav said while sharing a newspaper report from Ayodhya on the issue. The SP chief also questioned the functioning of cow shelters in t

Cong, BJP realising strength of 'PDA' ahead of polls: Akhilesh in MP

The Congress stopped caste census and implementation of the Mandal Commission report in the past and the BJP was taking a similar stand, but both parties know the importance of PDA, or pichhde (backwards), Dalits and Adivasis, said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister claimed that the road where Prime Minister Narendra Modi's aircraft once landed was built by his SP government, apparently referring to the landing of a C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft on Purvanchal Express in November 2021. Addressing a rally in Jatara constituency in Tikamgarh district of Madhya Pradesh, where assembly elections will be held on November 17, Yadav said both the Congress and the BJP are now talking about caste census and reservations to woo the PDA segment. It was the Congress that stopped the caste census and refused to implement the Mandal Commission report. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is taking the same path. Now, Congress and BJP are

SP, Apna Dal will fight 2024 Lok Sabha polls together: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said his party's alliance with the Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) will continue in next year's Lok Sabha elections and assured that it will be given full respect. Addressing a Foundation Day function of the Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) at the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan in Lucknow as the chief guest, Yadav said both parties have the same goal. "We have come together, if the alliance continues like this, it is bound to effect a change in the times to come. Whatever we have inherited, it is our responsibility to pass it onto the coming generation and make it better and stronger," he said. "We will fight the 2024 Lok Sabha elections together and we will fully respect the trust with which you people have come with us," the SP chief said. The Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) contested the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in alliance with the SP. However, all its candidates, including party president Krishna Patel, lost. Krishna Patel's elder daughter .

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Kamal Nath wanted MP poll tie-up with SP with full honesty: Digvijaya Singh

The relation between the SP and the Congress party has been strained lately, with Yadav being dissatisfied over the failure to achieve a seat-sharing strategy for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh elections

Akhilesh slams UP govt for keeping Azam Khan, son in separate jails

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has condemned the government's decision to keep senior party leader Azam Khan and his family members in separate jails after the court convicted them in the fake birth certificate case, terming it as a move to "harass" the party leader's family. While the 75-year-old Azam Khan was shifted to Sitapur district jail, his son Abdullah Azam was moved to Hardoi district jail early Sunday. A Rampur court on Wednesday convicted Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatima and son in a 2019 fake birth certificate case, and sentenced them to seven years in jail. Fatima is lodged in Rampur jail. In a post on X on Sunday, the SP chief said, "The way the vicious cycle of harassing the family of Honorable Azam Khan ji is going on is highly condemnable. Separating family members (in jails) is an old practice of those in power and is not justified under any circumstances on the basis of age. Everyone has stood together in his struggle for justice and will continue to do ...

Tried our best: MP Congress chief on seat-sharing with Akhilesh Yadav

"We were not able to convince our people on the seats they (SP) wanted," the Congress leader said

Samajwadi Party announces 3rd list of two candidates for MP Assembly polls

With the new list, Samajwadi Party (SP) has announced 33 candidates for the November 17 elections to the 230-member assembly in Madhya Pradesh

There should be no politics, says Ravi Kishan ahead of Akhilesh's visit

SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav will visit the Fatehpur village of Deoria district on October 16 and meet both the affected families in the incident

Want SP, Congress to fight together in Madhya Pradesh polls: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi party president Akhilesh Yadav started his party's campaign for MP polls by addressing a public meeting in Rewa district's Sirmour constituency on Sept 27

Samajwadi Party to play important role in defeating BJP in MP: Akhilesh

Lashing out at BJP, SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav said, Madhya Pradesh has had the highest number of cases of injustice and atrocities against women in the country under the BJP govt

Akhilesh Yadav slams MP govt over atrocities, injustice against women

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday slammed the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh for the injustice meted out to women and termed the Ujjain incident involving the rape of a 12-year-old girl beyond imagination. The girl, who was raped and found bleeding on a street in MP's Ujjain city, was on Wednesday operated upon by a team of specialist doctors and her condition is critical but stable, an official has said. The assault on the minor has sparked massive public outrage. Despite BJP being in power (in MP) for nearly 20 years and at the Centre for 10 years, Madhya Pradesh has the highest number of cases of injustice and atrocities against women in the country. This is not the figure of the Samajwadi Party, but that of NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau), said Yadav. The former UP chief minister arrived here on Wednesday to take part in a rally at Sirmaur in Rewa district in favour of his party candidate Laxman Tiwari. Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh are expected