Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya among 7 UP ministers in BJP listSP has fielded four candidates, including Swami Prasad Maurya, a minister in the first Yogi government who had quit the party to join the S...
UP Polls 2022: Purvanchal battle to test strength of caste-based partiesBJP has partnered with the Apna Dal (S) and Nishad Party. SP has allied with several smaller parties like RLD, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Part...
UP polls 2022: Here's how the parties line up ahead of phase-I pollingUttar Pradesh begins voting a few days from now in the 2022 Assembly elections, with the first of the seven phases of polls to be held on F...
Uttar Pradesh polls: Smaller parties try to play bigAs past trends in UP indicate, a party needs the support of more than two dominant castes communities -the full support of two and a sectio...
Akhilesh, seven allies to name candidates jointly, first list soonSP has entered into a tie-up with seven parties -- the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), Mahan Dal, Janwadi Party (Socialist), Apna Dal faction led ...
Candidates of SP, allies for 1st, 2nd phase of UP polls to be announced in a day or twoCandidates of the Samajwadi Party and its allies for the first and the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections will be announc...
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...
After burning fingers with Congress and BSP, SP banks on smaller partiesParties like Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP), Mahan Dal and Janwadi Party - who have pockets of influence in ...
Small parties in big demand in runup to UP assembly pollsIn the upcoming cabinet expansion of the Adityanath government, Sanjay Nishad of Nishad Party and Ashish Patel of Apna Dal are likely to ge...
Uttar Pradesh polls: Caste-based political parties bargaining hard with major partiesThese caste-centric parties add heft to the bigger parties like the BJP, SP, BSP and Congress in the election as even a few thousand votes ...
Akhilesh Yadav bets on caste census for supportYadav was presiding over a meeting of workers of Mahan Dal, a small party led by Keshav Dev Maurya, representing non-Yadav OBCs like Shakya...
Smaller parties in Samajwadi Party’s 2022 poll planThe primary objective of this move is to reach out to the crucial non-Yadav OBC category, as well as garnering the support of some tribal c...
Yogi Adityanath got CM's post by chance: Akhilesh YadavTaking a dig at Adityanath, he said, "If the Uttar Pradesh chief minister knew how to use a laptop, then he would have distributed laptops ...
Small is big in Uttar Pradesh where the die is 'caste'Come elections, these smaller political outfits make their presence felt in a big way as they can influence the outcome in the high stakes ...
Smaller political outfits seeking to leave their mark in heartland stateThese parties matter for mainstream political parties such as BJP and Congress because of the support they enjoy among particular caste gro...
JD(U) eyes alliance with seven parties that got 19% votes in 2012“Political constituency of Charan Singh and Karpoori Thakur remains unrepresented in UP. They need to be brought together to make it a broa...
Badaun: Electing 'outsiders' since 1984This constituency has not seen a 'local' Parliamentarian in the last three decades as 'outsiders', fielded by major political parties, are ...