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Height of cruelty: Mayawati on dumping of COVID-19 victims bodies in K'taka

After a video showing health workers allegedly tossing bodies of coronavirus victims in a large pit in Karnataka, BSP President Mayawati on Wednesday stated that the incident is the "height of cruelty and insult to humanity".The former UP Chief Minister demanded that the guilty must be punished."The tragedy that the bodies of COVID-19 victims being thrown into trenches in Ballari, Karnataka is the height of cruelty and an insult to humanity. Though incidents related to inhuman cruelty with corona patients are rampant but guilty of Ballari must be punished by the state government," Mayawati said in a tweet.Also, in another tweet, she asked the Central government to extend the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana till the end of the coronavirus pandemic."In order to check ignominy of starvation on account of long unprecedented hardship & unemployment due to coronavirus and the subsequent nationwide lockdown, the PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojna must continue not till November but ...

Galwan standoff: Govt, oppn should work with full maturity, says Mayawati

She said the whole country is very sad and angry over the death of 20 Army personnel, including a colonel, in a clash with the Chinese Army in Ladakh on June 15

SP, BSP give a miss to virtual meeting of opposition leaders called by Cong

Mayawati on Saturday said the Congress ruled the country for most of the years after independence but failed to provide jobs to people near their home, which forced them to migrate

The power of 3: One disaster

PM, CM, DM are the three engines of India's governance. Their handling of the pandemic is going awry and exposed the downside of the three-storey dictatorship

Modi's tweets on quitting social media are to divert attention: Mayawati

"This step seems to be full of politically vested interest," she alleged

Why SP and BSP are reluctant to take advantage of CAA turmoil in UP?

As Uttar Pradesh went through a deep turmoil, following the agitation against the CAA and the crackdown on dissenters, SP and BSP strangely remained muted

Why independent Dalit political outfits are failing to win elections

Badri Narayan explains why it has become harder to mobilise the Dalit community en bloc under the banner of Dalit political parties

BSP ready to accept Shah's challenge to debate on CAA anywhere: Mayawati

They also allege that the CAA along with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is intended to target the Muslim community in India.

Shah firm on CAA despite protests; Congress accuses him and Modi of lying

The NPR exercise will be carried out, along with the house-listing phase of the Census from April 1 to September 30, 2020.

How prepared is Oppn for UP polls? 3 upcoming elections will test readiness

This year promises to offer ample opportunities on electoral turf to the 3 main opposition parties to get their act together and play the 'semi-final' of sorts before the 'final match' in two years

Mayawati makes quick amends, appoints Brahmin as leader of BSP in Lok Sabha

Mayawati has termed the recent replacement balancing caste equations

Adityanath, Mayawati spar on policing as Noida prepares for commissionerate

Adityanath had blamed the previous regimes in UP for failing to adopt the police commissioner model owing to the lack of "political will"

Mayawati demands Gehlot's sacking after 100 babies die in Kota hospital

She demanded that Gehlot be dismissed and replaced by a new dispensation otherwise more women will lose their children.

Kota infant deaths: Mayawati questions silence of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

In a series of tweets, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also slammed the Gehlot government for the death of infants

Mayawati suspends BSP MLA in Madhya Pradesh Rama Bai for supporting CAA

The MLA later claimed that her statement had been "distorted by the media", and sought forgiveness.

Year in Review: Events that made biggest political news in India in 2019

From revocation of J&K's special status to the Citizenship Amendment Act, Business Standard lists six defining events of 2019 that became the biggest political issues in India

Mayawati asks UP govt to call for probe into deaths amid anti-CAA protests

Seventeen people are reported to have died in Uttar Pradesh during the protests against the new citizenship law.

Citizenship Act: Mayawati emerges as a peacenik amid violent protests

The Dalit czarina stressed that being "a disciplined party that espoused constitutional values" BSP workers would not hit the road against the CAA

Govt should give up its 'stubborn stand', withdraw CAA and NRC: Mayawati

A BSP delegation had met President Ram Nath Kovind on Wednesday over the contentious law and the violence that has ensued over the legislation

Mayawati demands high-level inquiry into police action on JMI, AMU students

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also appealed to all communities to maintain calm after violence rocked the two universities