The BJP has improved its performance since it had won only 14 of the 16 mayoral polls in 2017 and this time, it has won all 17 mayoral polls-including the newly formed Shahjahanpur municipal corporation.
According to reports, Arbaaz was a close aid of former Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Atiq Ahmad.
Population Control Row: Mayawati was apparently referring to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's statement on Monday, who said that population “imbalance” in the country can lead to anarchy.
The Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party and Mayawati's BSP had joined hands for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The alliance got just 15 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
At the meeting, Mayawati said the BSP is a party with limited resources and it is fighting parties which are run with the support of capitalists so "we have to make the party strong by holding small cadre-based meetings"
"UP election results are opposed to BSP's expectations. We should not be discouraged by it. Instead, we should learn from it, introspect and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power," Mayawati said.
Among the ministers who lost is outgoing deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya who lost to the Samajwadi Party's Pallavi Patel by 7,337 votes in the Sirathu seat.
Bharthana Election Result: SP's Raghvendra Kumar Singh has won this seat against BJP's Siddharth Shanker. Election here was held in the third phase on February 20.
Maharajpur election result 2022: BJP sitting MLA Satish Mahana has won the election defeating Samajwadi Party's Fateh Bahadur Singh Gill.
Including Gautam Buddh Nagar, the party today announced the list of candidates for 53 assembly seats of UP like Aligarh, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Mathura, Agra, Shamli, Muzzafarnagar, Meerut, Bagpat and Ghaziabad assembly constituencies.
The state's Firozabad district has been battling an outbreak of dengue and deadly viral fever for the past 2-weeks, leaving 55 people dead.
The JD-U has claimed that the party has considerable influence over at least two dozen seats situated close to the Bihar border.
Sukhdev Rajbhar, has announced his retirement from active politics and formally handed over the baton to his son Kamlakant Rajbhar Pappu.
In October 2020, seven BSP MLAs including Raini were suspended by party president Mayawati. They had opposed the nomination of the party's official candidate Ramji Gautam for the elections to the Rajya Sabha.
"I'm very hopeful that Brahmins will not vote for BJP in next Assembly polls. A campaign in leadership of BSP Gen Secy SC Mishra will be launched from Ayodhya on July 23 to connect with Brahmin community & assure them that their interests are safe in BSP rule only" says BSP chief Mayawati
A close aide of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was arrested in a case regarding an ambulance used to ferry the BSP legislator from a Punjab jail to a court in Mohali.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Friday said the elections for the district panchayat chairpersons and block heads in Uttar Pradesh were reminiscent of the "gross misuse of official machinery, money power and violence during the Samajwadi Party's rule".
Bahujan Samaj Party will not contest the Zilla panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh this year.
The Bahujan Samaj Party will go solo in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand state polls, to be held early next year, party chief Mayawati tweeted this morning, refuting media reports that plans are afoot to tie up with Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM in the state.
Taking to Twitter, the BSP chief today said, "This news is being broadcast in a media news channel since yesterday that the AIMIM and BSP will fight the upcoming assembly elections in UP together. This news is completely false."
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