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BSP chief Mayawati has called a two-day meeting at her party office on Saturday. Mayawati will be meeting party MLAs and MPs on Saturday, and on Sunday, the leader will be meeting all office bearers and zonal coordinators. The agenda of the meet will be to discuss the reasons of the BSP’s poll debacle.
Mayawati is also likely to take some drastic measures which could include sacking of some party leaders and change in organisation. She is likely to decide on the leader of the opposition in the UP Assembly.
Akhilesh Yadav 39 years old currently the MP from Kannauj, will be the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. A meeting of Samajwadi Party MLAs scheduled for 11 am tomorrow will elect Akhilesh their leader, following which he will formally stake claim to form the government, sources said. The family of Mulayam Singh Yadav has arrived at a consensus that the party chief will focus on national politics while Akhilesh runs UP.
Sources said two of the SP’s seniormost leaders — Shivpal Singh Yadav, Mulayam Singh’s brother and MLA from Jaswantnagar, and Azam Khan, MLA from Rampur — will propose Akhilesh’s name…
Congress chief in Uttar Pradesh Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Friday met UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi and offered to resign owning moral responsibility for the poll debacle. this is first meeting to Sonia Gandhi after the poll results, Joshi told reporters that she has owned the responsibility for the defeat and offered to step down.
Asked about the reasons for the party’s crushing defeat in the assembly polls, Joshi said that there were reasons for it and party leaders will sit down and take stock of.
Suspense continued on the issue of CM post in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party leader said that either Mulayam Singh Yadav or his son Akhilesh would head the government. “The party has decided to authorise ‘Netaji’ (Mulayam). If he wants, he can become the chief minister or if he wants then Akhilesh can become the CM. But there will be no third person,” Ramgopal Yadav told reporters here.
Earlier, SP chief Mulayam Singh asked his supporters to refrain from ‘goondaism’, warning them that such acts would not be tolerated “at any cost”.
Bharatiya Janata Party State president Surya Pratap Shahi on Thursday send his resignation to party national president Nitin Gadkari, owing moral responsibility for the electoral debacle in Uttar Pradesh elections. “I have written a personal letter to the national president and will not elaborate much on it,” Mr. Shahi told.
The BJP which won 51 seats in the 2007 polls was reduced to 47 this time. Even Mr. Shahi, who contested from Pathardeva seat in Kushinagar, lost in the elections.
Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi will meet party president Sonia Gandhi today. Congress managed to win just 28 seats in the state despite a high-voltage campaign by general secretary Rahul Gandhi. Pointing out the reasons of the debacle in the polls, Joshi had on Thursday indicated that the party’s campaign was sabotaged.
The poll results in other states – Punjab, Uttarkhand, Goa – are also not encouraging for the party. It managed to clear win only in Manipur. Sonia Gandhi has said that the party needs to introspect on the poll outcome which has further weakened the UPA at…