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BSP has emerged as the third largest party in the Rajya Sabha, relegating the CPM to fourth position in what can be termed as bad news for the Marxists ahead of the Assembly polls in West Bengal and Kerala.
While the strength of the CPM has come down from 16 to 15, BSP’s numbers has risen from 13 to 18 in the 245-member Upper House after the last month’s biennial elections to 55 seats.
Samajwadi Party has suffered the sharpest erosion in its strength — down from 11 to five seats.
DMK (seven from four seats), BJD (six from four seats) and Telugu…
After wooing upper castes for long, BSP chief Mayawati is back to focussing on her core support base of Dalits.
She has begun the exercise by issuing directives to allot ‘pattas’ (small land holdings) to landless and homeless Dalits in the vast rural expanse of the state.
In a circular issued by the chief minister’s office, Mayawati directed all divisional commissioners and district magistrates to undertake a special drive for allotment of ‘pattas’ to “eligible persons”, which primarily include landless Dalits.
The move is seen as part of her new agenda to gear up her party and government for the 2012 state assembly…
In order to reorganize the party organization before assembly elections, the Chief Minister Mayawati disbanded city and district BSP units and Bhaichara committees (caste committees).
The move is aimed at gearing up the organizational structure up to grassroots level for mission 2012. Even though at least two years are left for the state assembly election, the BSP is already in election mode.
Addressing a conference of BSP coordinators and members of caste committees in Lucknow today, Mayawati also announced removal of incharge of Lok Sabha constituencies. Well ahead of her rivals, Mayawati has launched hectic preparations for the 2012 electoral battle, which…
A move of the Uttar Pradesh government to disallow political parties to contest local body elections — kept under wraps for almost a month — has run into trouble, with the main opposition parties alleging that this was being done to help the ruling BSP manipulate the local bodies.
At present, political parties are free to contest these elections. The provision to debar them from contesting local body elections is contained in the draft rules on municipal elections which were notified on May 11. Anyone could file objection within 30 days, but the notification was not given any publicity, nor was…
Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) registered a sweeping victory in the bye-election for the Domariyaganj assembly constituency, retaining the seat by a huge margin.
BSP nominee Khatoon Taufique secured 44,765 votes to defeat Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Prem Prakash Tiwari (28,923) by a margin of 15,842 votes. The Samajwadi Party and Congress nominees suffered humiliating defeats, coming fourth and fifth and forfeiting their deposits.
The bye-election was necessitated following the death of sitting member, BSP’s Taufique Ahmed. The BSP then fielded his widow, Khatoon Taufique.
This bye-election’s biggest surprise was the third position bagged by newly formed Peace Party –…
Chief Minister Mayawati and 12 others were elected unopposed to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. The ruling party’s strength in the 100-member House is now 65.
In these biennial elections, eight candidates of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party, three from the Samajwadi Party and one each from the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party were declared elected to the Upper House of the state legislature.
Those of the BSP are Mayawati, Satish Chandra Jatav, Rishipal, Ram Kumar Kuriel, Subodh Parashar, Mohammad Athar Khan, Lalchand Nishad and Virendra Kumar Chauhan.
The SP members are Balram Yadav, Ram Sunder Das Nishad and Yashwant Singh while…