The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has announced a broad caste configuration for the Uttar Pradesh assembly bypolls to challenge the Samajwadi Party's (Pichda, Dalit and Alpsankhyak) formula. The BJP has fielded four OBC candidates, two Brahmins, and a Dalit and a Kshatriya candidate each. Four of the nine assembly seats going to bypolls were won by the SP, three by …
Stormy scenes were witnessed outside the official residence of U.P. Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya in Lucknow on Monday with hundreds of teachers’ job candidates hailing from reserved categories held sit-in protest which led to a face-off with police, leading to use of force to control the demonstrators. The aspirants were demanding immediate appointment of 69,000 assistant teachers amid the …
Amid the political war of words which continued for days over the removal of Bahujan Samaj Party national coordinator and heir apparent of the Dalit-centric party chief Mayawati, Akash Anand, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav is giving a renewed push for Bahujan unity in favour of the SP-led INDIA bloc since the removal last week. The removal of Mr. Anand, …
