While answering a question on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from the Lok Sabha, the former UP chief minister said he wanted to congratulate the party for observing satyagraha.
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav said that his party is following a policy of maintaining distance from both the BJP and the Congress.
Akhilesh Yadav, who is in the city to chair his party's two-day national executive, is scheduled to meet West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday evening.
Akhilesh Yadav was present at the Qawwali night during the sangeet ceremony of Swara Bhasker and Fahad Ahmad.
The now-viral clip is from two years ago but its contents have prompted an investigation by senior officials.
He also said promises made to the people by the BJP during the state polls have not been fulfilled.
"As per a pre-announced programme, national president Akhilesh Yadav was supposed to attend a function in Moradabad on February 4 but the Yogi Adityanath government is not allowing the plane to land," the party said in a tweet.
"The party that claimed to rule for decades — its leader said that it will be there for (the next) 50 years — is now counting its days.
The BJP is in power at the Centre as well as in Uttar Pradesh, and general elections are slated for 2024.
Mainpuri parliamentary constituency has five assembly segments, including Mainpuri, Bhogaon, Kishni, Karhal and Jaswant Nagar.
The SP chief asked why the Election Commission "has not taken cognisance of all complaints and memorandums related to the 2022 Assembly elections".
Amidst all his unanticipated moves, Mulayam Singh Yadav remained consistent on one issue throughout his life — that China is a bigger threat to India than Pakistan
Through his nearly six-decade political journey, Netaji straddled regional and national politics on his own terms
The veteran leader leaves a rich and controversial legacy behind as the SP, now led by Akhilesh Yadav, continues to be a prominent player in Indian politics.
Police stopped the marchers on Vikramaditya Marg crossing near the SP office, as they started moving towards the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Bhavan, Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Piyush Mordia told PTI.
During the march, the party MLAs and MLCs will raise issues of unemployment, price rise, crime against women and poor law and order situation in the state, the SP's chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said here on Sunday.
The leaders of the two OBC caste-based regional parties, which were SP allies in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls but had left the alliance after its defeat in the elections, have all praise for the SP chief.
Yadav said this apparently referring to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s statement on Monday, which pinned blame on population imbalance for it.
The Supreme Court last week said Sharma and her loose tongue had set the country on fire’ and that she needed to apologise
In another bypoll, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Durgesh Pathak won Delhi's Rajinder Nagar assembly seat by over 11,000 votes. In Tripura, BJP bagged three assembly seats in by-elections, while Congress won one seat.
As announced, ’Agnipath’ or ’Agniveer’ is a scheme for recruiting soldiers in the Army, Navy and Air force, to be hired for a term of four years on contract.
Sibal, a member of Congress' dissenting 'G-23 group', represented senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan in the Supreme Court. Sibal said he quit the Congress on May 16
Mayawati’s remarks come a day after Akhilesh Yadav said in Mainpuri that the "BSP has transferred its votes to the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh polls. Now it will be interesting to see whether the BJP makes Mayawati President or not) in return”.
There has been a growing resentment among the Muslim rank and file of the SP over party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s ‘silence’ over the issues related to the community
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav attacked the BJP-led state government over the incident. "Under the rule of BJP government 2.0, UP has drowned in crime. Today's crime list," he tweeted in Hindi.