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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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 […]