Bahujan Samaj Party chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati appears to be banking entirely on the caste factor to race to the portals of power in New Delhi.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was on Friday prevented from meeting university students in Kanpur, termed the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh as "vindictive".
Concerned over continued attacks on north Indians by MNS activists, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati demanded a ban on the outfit and asked the UPA to take stern measures to prevent repurcussions of these attacks elsewhere in the country.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's office on Monday approached the Supreme Court to oppose the State Information Commission's order to reveal details about Mulayam Singh Yadav's distribution of the chief minister's discretionary funds during his tenure.
Making a U-turn, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday decided to return the land in Rae Bareli, Lok Sabha constituency of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, for construction of a rail coach factory, a week after the allotment was cancelled.
After Congress President Sonia Gandhi's rally at Rae Bareli was scuttled, Congress on Wednesday threatened that its workers would prevent Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's 'Bharat bhraman' if she did not desist from "vendetta" politics.- "Congress is worried only about Rae Bareli but I am worried about the whole of Uttar Pradesh," Mayawati told a press conference in Lucknow on Wednesday.
Defying Mayawati's attempts to scuttle her plans, Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday visited her Lok Sabha constituency calling it her "karma bhoomi" and declaring that she is ready to go to jail for the sake of development.
In a breather to the Railways, the Allahabad High Court on Monday ordered status quo regarding possession of land alloted to the Centre by the Mayawati government to set up a rail coach factory in Sonia Gandhi's constituency Raebareli and later cancelled by the state government.
The Uttar Pradesh government has cancelled the allotment of land for a rail coach factory in Rae Bareli, which was to be inaugurated by AICC chairperson Sonia Gandhi on October 14, citing resentment among farmers and law and order problem as reasons.- Bahujan Samaj Party chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has rejected the Left parties' call to join their stir on Thursday, the day Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to meet President George W Bush in Washington.
- Taking exception to UP Governor T V Rajeswar's reported remarks on "frequent" transfers in the state, Chief Minister Mayawati has fired letters to him and President Pratibha Patil.
- In the backdrop of reports that suspected militants behind Delhi blasts had roots in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati alleged on Sunday that terrorism entrenched itself in the state during the Samajwadi Party's regime.
- Annoyed by the Centre not clearing a tough law against organised crime and terror, Uttar Pradesh government withdrew the legislation with Chief Minister Mayawati accusing the Congress of double standards for not scrapping a similar measure in Maharashtra.
Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) President H D Devegowda on Monday backed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati as a leader of the proposed Third Front.- Making her debut in the club of 100 most powerful women in the world, India's Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has joined Congress President Sonia Gandhi in a list compiled by US magazine Forbes.
Efforts to give a final shape to a national alternative to Congress and BJP continued on Sunday with CPI- M General Secretary Prakash Karat meeting BSP chief Mayawati in New Delhi.- An intense debate about Mayawati's successor has been raging in political circles since she told a public rally August 9 that there was a conspiracy to assassinate her.
The Congress on Saturday asked the Left if they would support Mayawati for the post of Prime Minister even though she is accused of amassing wealth much beyond her known sources of income.- Unfazed by the failure of efforts to pull down the UPA government that may have pitchforked her into national centrestage, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday said that "nobody can stop her from becoming Prime Minister".
- In a move to fulfill longstanding demands of the poor, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister on Wednesday laid the foundation of various development schemes worth Rs 250 crores in the Vrindavan/Brij region of Mathura district.
- Farmers in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's hometown Badalpur were being paid compensation for their land to be acquired for a recreation centre even as the opposition Congress launched an agitation, a farmer leader alleged.
- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said on Tuesday that the Central Bureau of Investigation should be asked to probe into the assets of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other chief ministers.
- Accusing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of playing "diktats", Congress vowed to fight for rights of the farmers whose lands were being "forcefully acquired" by the state government for creating a picnic spot.
Congress leaders Digvijay Singh, Sachin Pilot and Rita Bahuguna Joshi were arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police on the border with Delhi when they were going towards state Chief Minister Mayawati's village to protest against the "coercive" acquisition of land.
