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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Election Commission and Bahujan Samaj Party on a petition seeking cancellation of the election symbol ‘Elephant’ of the party.
Justice S Muralidhar asked the Commission and the party to file their responses on the petition filed by an NGO Common Cause pleading that the election symbol should be cancelled as Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh has been misusing it by by installing, at government expenses, numerous statues of elephant at various public places in the state.
The NGO had approached the court after the EC refused to take action against the…
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh has slammed Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for running the most corrupt government in Uttar Pradesh.
Talking to reporters, Singh said that except for the Congress, all other political parties in the state have corruption on their agenda, and the BSP tops the list.
“BSP’s government in Uttar Pradesh is one of the most corrupt governments of the country. However, be it Mulayam Singh’s government or BJP led government in the state corruption and favouritism engages them for their respective terms,” Singh added.
He further claimed that the BJP only pretends to be honest.
“Bharatiya Janata Party only pretends…
Congress said debacle in Bihar assembly polls will not its prospects in Uttar Pradesh where elections are due in 2012.
“We might have made some mistakes in Bihar. AICC president Sonia Gandhi has already taken a strong note of the electoral debacle in that state”, Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh says.
He said “I am sure there would be introspection and remedies found to whatever ails the party there (in Bihar).
Singh, who is the party’s in-charge of Uttar Pradesh affairs, claimed “Congress will do well in the state assembly elections due in 2012. The poll outcome of Bihar is not going to…