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Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav asserted on Monday that SP is not joining the UPA government at the Centre. Addressing a press conference here along with Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam said that neither the Congress has approached him to join United Progressive Alliance (UPA) nor is he inclined to do so.
I have not requested nor will request. We are only supporting them (outside support to UPA) to keep communal forces away from power in Delhi. There is no other support, Mulayam singh said.
30 IAS officers including chairman of Noida and Yamuna Expressway, have been transferred by the Uttar Pradesh government in the first major administrative reshuffle after chief minister Akhilesh Yadav took over. Chairman Noida and Yamuna Expressway Mohinder Singh has been put of “waiting list”, an official spokesperson said last night.
DM, Lucknow, Anil Kumar Sagar has been shifted as special secretary handicapped welfare. Additional commissioner, rural development, Anurag Yadav has been posted in his place, DM Gautam Buddha Nagar Hriydesh Kumar has been shifted to agricultural production commissioner branch as special secretary.
Akhilesh Yadav, who is new chief minister of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday kept the bulk of ministries, including the key Home and Finance, with him. controversial independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya, who was jailed by previous chief minister Mayawati and against whom there are pending criminal cases of attempt to murder, kidnapping and abduction, has been given Prison department.
Another senior leader and Samajwadi Party’s Muslim face Azam Khan has been allocated Parliamentary Affairs, Muslim waqf, Urban Development, Minority Welfare and Haj, besides Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation. Ahmad Hasan has got Medical and Health, Family Welfare and…
SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh, who steered the party to an impressive win in Uttar Pradesh, drove to the CPI(M) headquarters to meet its general secretary Prakash Karat and invite him for the March 15 ceremony in Lucknow. Akhilesh has come along with Mulayam Singh Yadav. We congratulated them for the success in the elections. They invited us for the swearing-in ceremony and we have accepted the invitation, Karat told reporters after the 20-minute meeting at the AKG Bhavan .
Today’s meeting comes almost four years after the bitter parting of ways between the two parties over…
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, who is all set to become the Chief Minister on Monday backed the idea of Third Front and said it was a good step for India. “Third Front is a good step for the country, but for SP Uttar Pradesh is the priority, Akhilesh Yadav said.
Reports of a possible Third Front emerged after Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was invited by SAD and SP for the swearing-in ceremonies of the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh chief ministers.
Samajwadi Party top leaders Shivpal Singh Yadav and Mohammad Azam Khan are among those likely to take oath along with Akhilesh Yadav when he is sworn in as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on March 15. Besides, Mulayam and Akhilesh senior party leaders Mohammad Azam Khan, Shivpal Singh Yadav, Ramgopal Yadav and Naresh Agarwal attended the meeting to finalise names of those to be sworn in along with Akhilesh, they said.
Besides, some young faces including Abhishek Mishra, who won from Lucknow and Tejnarain Pandey alias Pawan Pandey, who won from Ayodhya are also being considered for ministerial berths.
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