Be wary of BJP, they withdrew farm laws for sake of votes: Akhilesh Yadav to farmersYadav made the statement addressing a joint press conference with Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary, whose outfit is contestin...
28 Jan, 2022, 07.49 PM IST
UP Assembly polls: Cracks appear in Jat-Muslim unity over ticket distributionThe UP Jat Mahasabha has announced that if a Jat is not made a candidate on Siwalkhas, it will appeal to people to not vote for the allianc...
21 Jan, 2022, 11.46 PM IST
Akhilesh, now his own man, emerges as ‘The Challenger’After five years as CM of India’s largest state and two decades in politics, Akhilesh Yadav is leading an assembly election campaign, all o...
09 Jan, 2022, 11.57 AM IST
West UP farmers yet to warm up to BJP even after law repealFarmers in Dabathwa, a village in Siwalkhas constituency of Meerut, are preparing for a big joint rally of SP leader Akhilesh Yadav and RLD...
06 Dec, 2021, 06.59 AM IST
RLD may get 3 seats, deal with SP almost doneRLD’s decision to go with the SP-BSP combine and not the Congress shows Singh expects the alliance to fare better than the Congress, which ...
17 Jan, 2019, 09.50 AM IST
UP bypolls: Akhilesh Yadav’s absence, Mayawati silence did the trickIn 2014, BJP had pulled off a massive victory in Kairana by consolidating Hindu votes in the aftermath of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots.
01 Jun, 2018, 11.15 AM IST
Why RLD's Kairana victory has BJP worried about 2019The good margin of victory for RLD shows that opposition parties may succeed in uniting Jat, Muslims and Dalits in west UP before the 2019 ...
31 May, 2018, 09.45 PM IST
Kairana bypoll: How BJP plans to ensure no repeat of Gorakhpur, Phulpur debaclesBypoll might have been swung by the Jats, who backed BJP in both 2014 and 2017, but the sugarcane dues in the region and Ajit Singh’s latch...
22 May, 2018, 11.46 PM IST
Samajwadi Party eyes Gujjar backing on banks of YamunaThe SP leadership, sources in the party confide, is trying to work on the local Jat-Gujjar rivalry as it senses that the Jats are leaning h...
18 Jul, 2016, 04.55 AM IST
ET Analysis: Polarisation in UP’s sugar belt helps BJPHafiz Abbas, a representative of Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind that oversees several relief camps in the riot-hit Muzaffarnagar region, is an angry m...
01 Feb, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Toxic caste politics allowed Muzaffarnagar riots to spin out of controlMuzzaffarnagar, an avoidable riot, earned two distinctions: one, severity of Hindu or, Jat, backlash; two, the movement of riots to rural a...
19 Nov, 2013, 05.01 AM IST
UP CM Akhilesh Yadav was 'masterly inactive' during Muzaffarnagar riots: Jairam RameshUnion Minister Jairam Ramesh today accused Akhilesh Yadav of being "masterly inactive" over Muzaffarnagar riots.
20 Sep, 2013, 03.30 PM IST
With 80 Lok Sabha seats, UP crucial to Narendra Modi; BJP plans mega rallies“narendra Modi's rallies are being planned in Agra, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Baharaich, Kanpur, Lucknow. It will be spread over 45 da...
18 Sep, 2013, 03.36 AM IST
After Muzaffarnagar riots, Jats gravitating towards BJP in Western UP; SP real loserThe SP’s aim of winning 40 LS seats in UP and thereby playing a larger role at the Centre after general election looks distant after Muzaff...
18 Sep, 2013, 03.36 AM IST
Akhilesh Yadav booed in Muzaffarnagar over mishandling of riotsAkhilesh Yadav got a taste of public resentment against his government and party when he was booed by a crowd during his tour of Muzaffarna...
16 Sep, 2013, 05.30 AM IST
SP government playing partisan politics, say Jat leadersThe initial reaction of Jats over the rape and eve-teasing incidents was due to SP giving a free run to the hoodlums on the basis of their ...
12 Sep, 2013, 08.30 AM IST
Akhilesh Yadav's government fails to douse the communal fire engulfing MuzaffarnagarLeaders from both communities are being vilified or glorified for their roles in the violence and the distrust between the two communities ...
11 Sep, 2013, 01.02 PM IST