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Manipur violence echoes in UP House: nationalism, women’s rights under scrutiny
The corridors of Uttar Pradesh’s Legislative Assembly reverberated with a matter of national importance on August 7, 2023, when the members gathered in the Monsoon Session. The issue at hand wasn’t one…
- Opinions
Amid row over Gyanvapi ‘Mosque’, Gujarat’s monuments present pluralistic face
The bugle for the 2024 general elections has been sounded in Uttar Pradesh. It is once again a war cry over monuments and a desperate attempt to establish majority claim over the…
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Quirky Maya asks the ‘invited media’ to leave without addressing them
Saturday afternoon saw the state capital media being met out a shoddy treatment by Bahujan Samaj Party supremo, Mayawati at the party office. She neither addressed them, or posed for the cameras,…
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Akhilesh breaks ‘strategic silence’; thanks minority for supporting SP
Kulsum Mustafa Three months after the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections results were announced, and two years before the Lok Sabha elections are to begin, Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has finally…
- India
Kannuj needs perfumery park, not a cow dung plant: Akhilesh Yadav
Asserting that the BJP government’s priorities are totally misplaced and that the budget apart from being anti-people also does not envisage growth, the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and national president…
- Politics
Akhilesh fires verbal missiles at Maurya; the end target was Yogi
Kulsum Mustafa He could not have been more blunt or direct. Not mincing words, or softening his tone, Samajwadi Party chief, and Opposition Leader in the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, Akhilesh Yadav,…
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UP gets Yogi 2.0 ministry of 52; loser Maurya’s caste ensures him Dy CM chair a second time
With a lone Muslim minister Danish Azad Ansari and five women in the ministry, Uttar Pradesh formally got its 2.0 Yogi Adityanath headed team again. Adhering to his 80- 20 baseline hardcore…
- India
Mayawati double-crossed Muslims, hoodwinked Dalits to ensure BJP victory
Despite heavy odds, SP Alliance returned 36 Muslim MLAs out of the 64 that it had fielded. The wisdom shown by minority voters helped in diluting the effect of Mayawati’s strategic planning…
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From caste to religion, UP assembly poll results show a major shift in narrative
Maybe it is too early to draw any conclusion, but the preliminary study of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls results make it amply clear that it will not be castes but religion…
