Lucknow | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati, on Monday, said that her party would fight the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections alone and would not join hands either with the INDIA bloc or the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Addressing a Press conference on her 68th birthday, Mayawati said she had no plans to retire […]
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Afzal Ansari disqualified as Lok Sabha MP
New Delhi | Bahujan Samaj Party MP Afzal Ansari, brother of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari, was disqualified from Lok Sabha on Monday following his conviction in a 2007 Gangsters Act case. According to a Lok Sabha Secretariat notification issued on Monday, Ansari stands disqualified as MP from Lok Sabha from Ghazipur, with effect from April 29, the […]
Sonia chairs meeting with 18 opposition parties, AAP, SP, BSP missing
New Delhi | Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi is holding a meeting with leaders of 19 opposition parties to discuss several issues, including the recently-concluded Monsoon Session of Parliament, party leaders said on Friday. A party leader said that besides the Congress, leaders of the Trinamool Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party, the DMK, the Shiv Sena, […]
Mayawati expels two senior leaders over ‘anti-party’ activities
Lucknow | Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has expelled two senior legislators Lalji Varma and Ram Achal Rajbhar for alleged “anti-party activities” during the recent panchayat polls. Lalji Varma, who was the leader of the BSP legislature party in the state assembly, has also been removed from his post. Guddu Jamali a.k.a. Shah Alam has […]
Man ends life, suicide note claims denial of ticket by BSP
Ghazipur (Uttar Pradesh): A trader allegedly committed suicide and left behind a note saying that he was taking the extreme step because the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has not given him a ticket to contest the 2022 Assembly elections. In the purported suicide note, the trader, Munnu Prasad, alleged that BSP President Mayawati was demanding Rs […]
BSP wiped out too as AAP tsunami sweeps Delhi
New Delhi: Once a formidable force, the BSP has lost the deposit in all seats it contested in February 8 Delhi Assembly elections and could see its the vote percentage fall under one per cent when the final tally is out. On his party’s performance, BSP state President Laxman Singh said: “It is polarisation which has […]
Jailed BSP MP to take oath in LS
Lucknow: When Atul Rai takes oath as a first time BSP MP in the Lok Sabha on Friday, he will create a record of sorts. It took him eight months to get sworn in as Lok Sabha member after being elected in May 2019 because he was in jail and denied permission to travel to […]
6 ex-BSP Rajasthan MLAs formally join Congress
Jaipur: Six Bahujan Samaj Party MLAs in Rajasthan, who flipped over to the Congress in September, formally joined the party on Friday after meeting interim President Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. Sonia Gandhi congratulated all six MLAs on the occasion. Congress’ Rajasthan in-charge, Avinash Pande said: “These MLAs have been with the party, but now with […]
BSP graph dips alarmingly in UP
Lucknow: The Bahujan Samaj Party is losing its base very rapidly in Uttar Pradesh. In the just concluded Assembly bye-elections, the party not only lost its sitting Jalalpur seat, but its candidates were overtaken by the Congress in Rampur, Lucknow Cantt, Govind Nagar, Pratapgarh, Gangoh and Zaidpur. Jalalpur was considered a BSP stronghold and its defeat […]
BSP partymen paraded on donkeys, faces blackened in Jaipur
Jaipur: In a shocking incident, BSP workers on Tuesday blackened the faces of the party’s national coordinator Ram Gautam and Rajasthan in-charge Sita Ram Sila, and paraded them on donkeys with garlands of shoes and slippers around their necks in front of the state party headquarters here. A video of the incident has gone viral […]