Yadav also shared his plan of forging an alliance with small regional parties in the state for the upcoming Assembly elections
Our alliance with the RLD is final. Seat-sharing is to be finalised, he told PTI in an interview
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday questioned a recent meeting between the father of student leader Umar Khalid, an accused in the Delhi violence case, and SP President Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party president and former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav Sunday attacked the BJP dispensation, saying the state needs a 'yogya' (competent) government and not a Yogi government.
Seeking to galvanise public support ahead of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav will be commence a yatra from Kanpur on Tuesday. "The 'Samajwadi Vijay Yatra' yatra aims to make people aware about the corrupt, autocratic and suppressive policies of the BJP government and to establish real democracy," the party said in a statement on Monday. Yadav will travel in a Mercedes bus, which has been turned into a 'rath' having posters of Akhilesh Yadav displayed on one side and that of party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav on the other, besides a picture of party leader Mohammad Azam Khan. A day before the yatra, the party released a 17-second video in which Akhilesh Yadav is seen talking to his father Mulayam Singh Yadav and touching his feet to get blessings. BJP leader and UP government spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh took a swipe at Akhilesh Yadav, saying "the one who dumped the harried people during the corona times is going to the public in his ...
Yadav said that his party is optimistic about getting 400 seats and securing a landslide victory.
As many as eight people died in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident that took place on October 3
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav was detained on Monday as he sat on a dharna outside his Vikramaditya Marg residence in Lucknow after he was not allowed to go to Lakhimpur
Priyanka Gandhi and other party leaders were detained in Sitapur, with the party alleging they weren't allowed to meet victims of the violence that erupted during a farmers' protest in Lakhimpur Kheri
Yadav on Friday lashed out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the Kanpur businessman death case, and charged that "someone" is saving himself and there is an extortion racket linked to the matter.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday promised to go in for the caste census in Uttar Pradesh if voted to power
Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has said the "success" of the farmers' Bharat Bandh has unnerved the ruling party
Not only the SP, its partner RLD, too, has doubled down on its campaign to earn farmer votes
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Sitapur Rakesh Rathore met Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, giving a clear indication of shifting loyalties in the political quicksand
There is an outcry in the state due to dengue and viral fever. There are huge crowds in hospitals, and children are dying due to a lack of proper and timely treatment, he said in a party statement.
When a handful of Muslim clerics and a SP parliamentarian welcomed Kabul's regime change, their statements served the BJP's purpose
The BJP on Monday attacked Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav over don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's brother Sibghatulla Ansari joining his party
The government can mount its defence by highlighting the sizeable credit flow of about Rs 2.2 trillion to the state's micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the past four years
Flaying the BJP government in the state over the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, Yadav said, "I condole the death of all those who died during the second wave of the coronavirus."
With an eye on the UP assembly polls, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday embarked on a 'cycle yatra' here to raise issues like price rise, unemployment, farm laws and crime rate