Bahujan Samaj Party

This year's budget not any different than last nine years: Mayawati

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Wednesday said it would be better if the budget is for the country rather than for the party. Whenever the Centre talks about the figures of beneficiaries of schemes, Mayawati said in a tweet, it must remember that India is a vast country of about 130 crore poor, labourers, deprived, farmers who are yearning for their Amrit Kaal. "For them, there is just talk. It is better if the budget is more for the country than for the party," she added, indirectly suggesting that the party hoped to gain electoral benefits from the exercise. "Like earlier in the country, in the last nine years also the budgets of the central government kept on coming in which announcements, promises, claims and hopes were showered. They all became redundant when India's middle class faced the problems of inflation, poverty and unemployment etc and were reduced to lower middle class," Mayawati said in a tweet in Hindi. "This year's budget is also not much different. No ...

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UP govt has no plans to give unemployment allowance: Labour minister

The Uttar Pradesh government has no plans to give unemployment allowance in the state, Labour and Employment Minister said here on Friday. Anil Rajbhar was replying to a question raised by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Umashankar Singh in the legislative assembly. Singh asked about the number of unemployed youths presently registered in the state who have been given employment and whether the government will consider giving unemployment allowance to the remaining unemployed youths. In his response, the labour and employment minister said there is a system of registration of candidates interested in employment on the employment department portal on which a total of 25,39,619 candidates have registered themselves from March 19, 2017 to September 12, 2022. A total of 6,68,269 candidates have been selected for employment by the Employment Department through employment fairs in the private sector, Rajbhar added. Singh supplemented the question of whether the government would give ..

Govt trying to save 'big fish': Mayawati on transfer controversy in UP

Amid the controversy surrounding the transfers in Uttar Pradesh's health and public works departments, BSP chief Mayawati has alleged the government is trying to save some "big fish" involved

BSP, SP criticise Centre over Agnipath scheme, says introduced in haste

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday slammed the Centre over 'Agnipath' claiming the scheme was introduced in a haste

'Election mirage': Mayawati on Centre's move to recruit 10 lakh employees

"Due to wrong policies and working style of the Centre, poverty, inflation, unemployment and devaluation of the Rupee are at an all-time high", Mayawati said in a series of tweets in Hindi.

'Illegal' property worth Rs 21 cr belonging to UP ex-MLC's aide attached

A joint team of police and revenue department on Sunday attached alleged illegal property worth Rs 21 crore registered in the name of former MLC Haji Iqbal's aide. The property was registered in the name of Naseem and it was attached under the provisions of the Gangster Act, police said. Iqbal was a Bahujan Samaj Party MLC from 2010 to 2016. Iqbal, who headed the gang, was indulged in smuggling wood, illegal mining, threatening people and using fraudulent means to purchase government and non-government land, and registering them in the names of his aides, family members, relatives and even servants, Senior Superintendent of Police Akash Tomar told PTI. He had amassed money from criminal activities and purchased a number of properties in Behat area of Saharanpur, the SSP said. In another case, property worth Rs 4 crore in Barabanki district, belonging to drug smuggler Mohammad Saheem alias Kasim, too, was attached on Sunday, Additional Superintendent of Police, Barabanki, Manoj Kum

Mayawati mocks Akhilesh for saying he wanted her to become prime minister

How someone who could not fulfil his own dream of becoming the chief minister will manage to realise the aspirations of others: Mayawati

Mayawati looking to recast party template, revive her old social alliance

Interestingly, Mayawati had tried to experiment by joining hands with the SP, her bitter rival, in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Dalit leaders of casteist parties won't do anything for community: Mayawati

If these people make efforts to do something for the Dalit community, then they are thrown out of the party and the government, she said

Mayawati hits back at Rahul Gandhi; asks him to worry about his own party

Gandhi had on Saturday said that the Congress reached out to the BSP leader, offering her the chief minister's post for contesting the assembly polls together, but she did not respond

Polling for 36 UP Legislative Council seats on Saturday, BJP eyes majority

The 36 seats are spread across 35 local authorities' constituencies. The biennial poll was earlier planned on two dates but now it will be conducted together on April 9.

Uttar Pradesh Assembly election: Where does Dalit politics go from here?

BSP won just one of the 403 seats and secured a vote per cent of 12.8, down from 17 seats and a vote share of 22.2 per cent in 2017

Mayawati accuses media of adopting casteist approach to harm BSP

Mayawati Saturday accused the media of adopting "casteist and hateful approach" towards the party, and asked its spokesperson to boycott TV debates.

UP Polls: Mayawati terms BJP's victory 'success of negative campaigns'

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Friday admitted that her party's rout in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election was a "lesson".

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