Many of these crestfallen leaders had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and recent by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, but lost
BSP president Mayawati too on Thursday blamed the government for the controversy, saying education and politics of religion or caste cannot be linked.
Following the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, SP nad BSP snapped ties
Her comments come in the backdrop of the murder of Hindu outfit chief, Kamlesh Tiwari in the state capital on Friday
Nadbai MLA Jogendra Singh Awana said that it was difficult for them to support Congress from outside
Since the much-hyped pre-poll alliance between the SP and BSP failed to click at the elections, Mayawati is now compelled to play all her cards
Leaders like Jyotiraditya Scindia, R P N Singh, Avinash Pande, and some others told the CWC that the public mood was in favour of the govt's move
Mayawati on Tuesday night expelled its lone party MLA in Karnataka hours after Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy lost the trust vote in the state assembly
She said that before pointing a finger at others, the party should introspect
The provisional order for the attachment of the seven-acre plot, "beneficially owned" by Anand Kumar and his wife Vichiter Lata, was issued on July 16
Mayawati claimed that on one hand, BJP government was slashing allocation for rural employment and on the other, it was not filling up nearly 700,000 vacant government posts
Mayawati's decision to break alliance with SP is triggered by 'social contradictions', fear of losing Dalit votes
Samajwadi Party on Tuesday said it will also go it alone in the 11 Assembly bye-elections after BSP supremo Mayawati announced that her party would contest these elections on its own following the poor performance of the SP-BSP alliance in the Lok Sabha elections."I will think about what is being said about the alliance and if it has broken, the SP will also go it alone in the by polls after consultation amongst the party members." SP chief Akhilesh Yadav told reporters shortly after Mayawati made clear her intentions of fighting the bye-elections on her own.Replying to the question on whether he expected such a decision by the BSP, he said, "It is difficult to say. The decision to part ways is also welcome and best wishes to the party workers."Earlier in Lucknow, Mayawati announced that she will fight the by-polls to 11 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh alone saying the reason for the alliance's debacle in the Lok Sabha was because the main vote base of the SP, the Yadav community, did
Mayawati added that the Bahujan Samaj Party's relationship with the Samajwadi Party is never going to end and she will try to ensure that their relationship stays intact
BSP likely to fight coming UP bypolls on 11 seats independently
The six BSP MLAs were scheduled to meet Governor Kalyan Singh on Monday but the meeting was cancelled at the last moment
The BSP chief said the BJP government is a sinking ship
The BSP chief alleged Modi had got his caste included in the Backward Class category for political and electoral gains
Ending decades-long rivalry, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati Friday shared dais at an election rally with the BSP President describing the SP patron as a "real leader" of the backwards