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UP govt's policy on madrasas double-edged sword for their teachers: BSP MP

BSP MP Kunwar Danish Ali on Saturday alleged the Uttar Pradesh government's policy on madrasas is proving to be a double-edged sword for their teachers as it is not paying them honorarium and creating fear among unrecognised Islamic seminaries. The Uttar Pradesh government on August 31 announced that it will conduct a survey of unrecognised madrasas in the state to gather information about the number of teachers, curriculum, their affiliation with any non-government organisation and basic facilities available there, among other things. "The Uttar Pradesh government's policy is proving to be a double-edged sword for madrasa teachers. On the one hand, it (government) is not giving honorarium to the teachers of recognised madrasas and on the other, it is creating fear amongst unrecognised madrasas," Ali said in a tweet in Hindi. The government is playing with the future of madrasa teachers and lakhs of poor children, he charged. At present, there are a total of 16,461 madrasas in Utta

BSP Chief Mayawati urges UP govt to help farmers affected by scarce monsoon

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Thursday urged the Uttar Pradesh government to help farmers affected by a weak monsoon this season. "Farmers of Uttar Pradesh are already in distress as they are not getting sugarcane arrears and remunerative prices for their produce. A weak monsoon now has increased their worries even more," the BSP supremo said in a tweet in Hindi. "The government should immediately start helping these farmers to get them out of such a dire situation. This is the demand of the BSP," she said. In another tweet, Mayawati said, "Also, in a state having a huge farmer community like Uttar Pradesh, the latest announcement of spending Rs 192 crores over the next five years, which is only about Rs 38 crores per year, for crop protection and storage appears meagre. The government should stop ignoring them too." In Uttar Pradesh, 62 districts of the total 75 have received less rainfall this season, and the state government has ordered a survey to assess the groun

Pak intruder shot at as BSF foil narcotics smuggling bid in J-K's Samba

BSF troops foiled a major bid to smuggle narcotics from across the border and shot at a Pakistani intruder in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Thursday, officials said. According to a public relations officer of the Border Security Force (BSF), the alert troops noticed suspicious movements of a man near the Chilliyari border outpost along the international border (IB) in the early hours. The man was carrying a bag. The troops opened fire, resulting in injuries to the intruder, the official said. Following a search operation, eight packets containing about eight kg of narcotics, likely to be heroin, were recovered, he added. The official said the injured intruder managed to crawl back to the Pakistani side.

ED raids places linked to BSP MP Mukhtar Ansari, his brother in Delhi, UP

The Enforcement Directorate conducted multiple raids at the premises of Bahujan Samaj Party's MP Mukhtar Ansari in Lucknow and Ghazipur in connection with an alleged money laundering case.

'Prevent Muslims from being misled in 2024 polls': Mayawati to BSP workers

Appreciating the performance of party candidate in the Lok Sabha bypoll, Mayawati on Monday asked BSP party workers to keep the momentum and prevent Muslims from being misled in the 2024 election.

Keep the momentum intact till 2024 Lok Sabha election: BSP chief Mayawati

Appreciating the performance of her party candidate in the bypoll in Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat, BSP chief Mayawati asked her party workers to keep the momentum till the general election in 2024

BSP extends support to the BJP-led NDA's Prez candidate Droupadi Murmu

The BSP on Saturday extended its support to the BJP-led NDA's presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, who is likely to be the first tribal leader and the second woman to occupy the post

BSP MLA, SP legislator, and 1 independent join BJP in Madhya Pradesh

Three MLAs, including one each from the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party and an independent legislator, joined the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh

RS polls: Rajasthan BSP whip asks its 6 MLAs to vote for Subhash Chandra

The Rajasthan BSP on Saturday issued a whip asking six MLAs who had won as party candidates but later merged with the Congress to vote for only Independent Subhash Chandra who is in the fray

Rajya Sabha elections: 4 BSP turncoats spell trouble for Rajasthan Congress

As the Rajya Sabha polls near, the resort politics has yet again started and pictures of Congress MLAs living a lavish life in Udaipur-based five star hotel are going viral

BSP chief Mayawati accuses BJP of instigating religious sentiments

Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati Wednesday accused the BJP of instigating religious sentiments in order to divert people's attention from issues like unemployment, poverty and rising inflation.

Don't want to be president, would rather be prime minister or CM: Mayawati

Reacting to Yadav's dig at her on Wednesday, Mayawati said she has never aspired to become the president and the Samajwadi Party leader was dreaming about it to clear his path to become the UP CM

276 candidates switched parties to contest 2022 assembly polls: ADR report

Out of 276 candidates who switched parties during the 2022 assembly polls in five states, 27 per cent left the BSP and 13 per cent left the Congress, poll rights body ADR said

Mayawati looking to recast party template, revive her old social alliance

Interestingly, Mayawati had tried to experiment by joining hands with the SP, her bitter rival, in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Bulldozers in Jahangirpuri under guise of illegal construction: Mayawati

BSP president Mayawati and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said strict action should be taken against those who are the original culprits

Mayawati hits back at Rahul Gandhi; asks him to worry about his own party

Gandhi had on Saturday said that the Congress reached out to the BSP leader, offering her the chief minister's post for contesting the assembly polls together, but she did not respond

Take measures to reduce fuel prices: BSP chief Mayawati to Centre

Petrol and diesel prices were on Thursday hiked by 80 paise a litre each, taking the total increase in rates in the last 10 days to Rs 6.40 per litre.

SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav is 'B-team of BJP', not BSP: Mayawati

She also attacked Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav for changing the names of institutions named after B R Ambedkar during his tenure

Mayawati accuses media of adopting casteist approach to harm BSP

Mayawati Saturday accused the media of adopting "casteist and hateful approach" towards the party, and asked its spokesperson to boycott TV debates.

BSP ends UP Assembly polls 2022 with 1 seat, and about 13% vote share

The Bahujan Samaj Party managed to win only one of the 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, far from party president Mayawati's pre-poll claims that they would spring a surprise. However, the BSP has managed to secure the third-highest vote share by bagging 12.9 per cent of the total votes polled in the state elections, according to the Election Commission figures. The assembly elections were swept by the BJP for a straight second term after it got the highest 41.3 per cent vote share, followed by the Samajwadi Party with 32 per cent votes, according to the Election Commission. In the 2017 assembly polls, the BSP had contested all 403 seats and won only 19 of them while its deposit was forfeited on 81 seats. The party had polled over 22 per cent of the total votes cast in 2017. The BSP, a national party fighting all constituencies in the state like it did in 2017, won the Rasara seat in Ballia district where its sitting MLA Umashankar Singh got 87,887 (or 43.82 per cent) of the tot