The crisis in the Samajwadi Party (SP) appeared to have eased Monday with Amar Singh, who resigned from all party posts last week, saying that matters have been sorted out in the party.
Amar Singh and SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, who had spoken against each other, said they had sorted out issues between them. [...]
Expressing sadness at the way Samjawadi Party general secretary Amar Singh had been treated by the party, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt Saturday night also announced his resignation from the post, but said he would stay in the party for the time being.
‘After (my mentor) and elder brother Amar Singh stepped down as general secretary, I [...]
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Friday did not rule out the possibility of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh joining its ranks, but said it was not the occasion to talk politics.
‘We believe in keeping human relations above politics. Mr Amar Singh is unwell. Our party sends him best wishes to see him healthy, [...]
A Supreme Court judge Thursday quit a bench hearing a lawsuit by Reliance Power challenging the Allahabad High Court’s ruling on the acquisition of farm land for the Rs.25,000-crore power plant at Dadri, close to the national capital.
As the matter came up for hearing Justice B.S. Chauhan informed the court that he would not like [...]
While insiders in the Samajwadi Party are not surprised at Amar Singh’s decision to step down from the most powerful position in the party hierarchy, his detractors see his exit as a good omen for the party.
Be it Beni Prasad Verma, Azam Khan or actor-turned-politician Raj Babbar, all left the party largely on account of [...]
Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh Wednesday threw the political establishment into a bout of fevered speculation when he announced his surprise resignation as general secretary of his party and other posts, citing health reasons.
‘I hardly had any rest. Doctors told me it is not good. At the age of 53, I am entitled to [...]
Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh Wednesday resigned as general secretary of the party on health grounds and said he wanted to devote more time to his family. He also said he had no differences with SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and would never speak ‘a word’ against him.
‘I have resigned on health grounds. I [...]
Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Amar Singh Wednesday resigned as general secretary of the party on health grounds and said he wanted to devote more time to his family. He also said he had no differences with party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) For every hour when parliament is in session, the government spends nearly Rs.14 lakhs (Rs. 1.4 million) of tax payers’ money. And just imagine how much the state exchequer must have lost during the just concluded winter session when there was not a single 100 percent productive day with full [...]
Agra, Dec 24 (IANS) The Samjwadi Party Thursday announced it had expelled its candidate for election to the legislative council from Agra-Firozabad after allegations that he had accepted money from the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to lose.
Samajwadi Party leader and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s son Akhilesh Yadav said Girish Yadav had been expelled [...]
New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) Noisy protests for and against the division of Andhra Pradesh Thursday forced repeated disruptions of the Lok Sabha that saw 28 business papers tabled in a span of just 15 minutes amid the chaos before the house was adjourned for the day.
Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha Karia Munda was [...]
New Delhi, Dec 16 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was adjourned Wednesday when MPs from the Left parties and the Samajwadi Party (SP) disrupted question hour on the issue of price rise.
As soon as the morning session of the Lok Sabha began, the MPs, led by SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, gathered near Speaker Meira Kumar’s [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) The Lok Sabha Wednesday expressed concern over the deteriorating health of Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader and MP K. Chandrasekhara Rao, who has been on a fast-unto-death for 11 days demanding a separate Telangana state.
Speaking on behalf of the government, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs V. Narayanasamy appealed to [...]
New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday apologised for Congress MP Beni Prasad Verma’s derogatory remarks against former prime minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Manmohan Singh, who returned from his Russia visit Tuesday night, said Wednesday that Verma’s comment ‘was not appropriate’.
‘I on behalf of my government [...]
New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) The Lok Sabha was Tuesday repeatedly adjourned with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) protesting derogatory remarks by Congress MP Beni Prasad Verma during the debate on the Liberhan report and insisting on an unconditional apology.
The house was initially adjourned till 5 p.m. and then another half an hour by Speaker [...]
New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Terming the Liberhan Commission report as ‘only a half-truth’, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Monday said that veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee was also responsible for the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992.
‘Why was Atalji arrested (after the Dec 6, 1992 razing) if he [...]
Allahabad, Dec 4 (ANI): The Allahabad High Court on Friday cancelled the land allotted to Anil Ambani’s Reliance Natural Resources Limited (RNRL) for a gas-based thermal power plant at Dadri in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh.
In 2004, Mulayam Singh Yadav led state [...]
New Delhi, December 3 (IANS) Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, under fire from some colleagues over his remarks on the Firozabad by-poll, Thursday received full backing from party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who praised his work and emphasised his position in the hierarchy.
‘He is a leader who can take action against others,’ Mulyam Singh [...]
New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today downplayed the remarks of party general secretary Amar Singh, on losing the Firozabad bypoll.
Amar Singh had earlier blamed the Yadav’s family over confidence for the loss.
SP general secretary said [...]
New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today downplayed the remarks of party general secretary Amar Singh, on losing the Firozabad bypoll.
Amar Singh had earlier blamed the Yadav’s family over confidence for the loss.
SP general secretary said [...]
New Delhi, Nov.30 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday assured members of Parliament that the UPA Government had no intention of imposing President’s Rule in West Bengal, and was only sending a central facting finding team to that state in a bid to assist the government there [...]
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS) Calling the rout of his wife in the Lok Sabha battle in Firozabad as ‘more than a setback’ for himself, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav accused the Congress of using money power to achieve its sensational victory.
‘The Firozabad outcome was more than a setback for me, but I am [...]
Lucknow, Nov 20 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) president Mulayam Singh Yadav had repeatedly ignored warnings about the potential harm that his bonhomie with Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) rebel Kalyan Singh would cause to him and his party, rebel party leader Azam Khan said Friday.
Once a confidant of Mulayam Yadav, Khan sought to blame it all [...]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) The row over the government’s sugarcane pricing policy forced adjournment of the Lok Sabha on the opening day of parliament’s winter session Thursday as opposition members created a ruckus demanding higher rates for farmers. Outside parliament, thousands of farmers held a protest, paralysing key Delhi roads and forcing Prime [...]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (ANI): The winter session of the parliament was adjourned for the day on Thursday due to opposition protests over sugarcane prices.
Earlier today, farmers from all parts of the country congregated in the national capital to stall proceedings in parliament in protest against the high sugarcane prices.
Tens of thousands of farmers gathered [...]
Lucknow, Nov 14 (ANI): Having suffered a jolt in recent by election in Uttar Pradesh Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said here on Saturday that, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh was neither with the party and nor [...]
Lucknow, Nov 14 (IANS) The Samajwadi Party (SP) will Monday honour its leader Abu Asim Azmi who was recently attacked by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) legislators in the assembly at Mumbai for taking his oath in Hindi and not Marathi.
SP — led by Mulayam Singh Yadav — Saturday resolved to honour Azmi, the recently elected [...]
New Delhi, Nov. 13 (ANI): November 10, 2009 will be observed as a Black Day every year by the Samajwadi Party, as on this day it suffered perhaps the biggest ever jolt in its 17-year history.
Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav lost to one time partyman Raj Babbar by [...]
Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 12 (IANS) An upset Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, son of party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Thursday said his wife Dimple’s defeat in the Lok Sabha by-election here was a verdict against him, but did not rule out a covert deal between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in [...]
Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh), Nov 12 (IANS) An upset Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, the son of party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Thursday said his wife Dimple’s defeat in the Lok Sabha by-election here was a verdict against him.
‘The verdict is against me. I had won the seat earlier,’ Akhilesh Yadav said at a press conference [...]
