Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav was appointed the leader of Opposition in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Saturday, hours after he was unanimously elected as the leader of the SP legisl...
The Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and the party’s general secretary Azam Khan on Tuesday resigned from their Lok Sabha membership to retain their recently won Assembly seats.
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Is Mandal politics on its deathbed? This is the question that many analysts have asked after the Bharatiya Janata Party routed the Samajwadi Party in the recent Uttar Pradesh elections. It was the fou...
It could have been worse. It’s hard to see how, when the sense of being trapped in one of A.K. Ramanujan’s variant Ramayanas — the one in which the asuras win rep...
The triumph and trouncing of political parties dominate the public narrative as well as analyses of elections. The political fate of parties is important: but it need not be the be all and end all of ...
Several Samajwadi Party leaders in private picked fault with what they described as their leader Akhilesh Yadav’s “light-hearted” campaign.
A senior SP leader, who didn’t want...
The Election Commission of India on Wednesday ordered Uttar Pradesh’s chief electoral officer to take action against an additional district magistrate in Varanasi over lapses related to EVMs.
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Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday had alleged that EVMs not used in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections were being smuggled into strongrooms where machines deployed in the polls have been kept...
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Sir — The fight against climate change is the shared responsibility of governments and ordinary citizens. Research from three leading institutions suggest that six relatively st...
Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party president, has alleged that EVMs not used in the just-concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections were being smuggled into strongrooms where machines deployed in the...