LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has announced a nationwide agitation on December 24 to protest against Home Minister Amit Shah's controversial remarks about Dr Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar in Parliament, which they claim disrespected the architect of India's Constitution.

CHADNIGARH:The SAD-BSP alliance will sweep the polls in Punjab and there is no question of rejoining the BJP-led NDA government. The party is determined to break Congress leader Navjot Sidhu's arrogance. And Parkash Singh Badal is a people's man and he's contesting at the age of 94 is a natural corollary.

GHANAUR: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the advent of the SAD-BSP alliance government in Punjab would witness an increase in social welfare schemes and that the old age pension would be increased from Rs 1,500 per month to Rs 3,100 per month and the shagun benefit to brides from weaker sections would be increased to Rs 75,000.

CHANDIGARH:The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD)-Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) alliance on Tuesday released election manifesto promising what it called "brave and path-breaking initiatives", including a revolutionary shift to clean solar energy to ensure zero-bill electricity to every house and student cards of Rs 10 lakh each for quality education, anywhere.

SAHIBZADA AJIT SINGH NAGAR(MOHALI):Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today declared that the SAD-BSP Government would restart the pre-2004 old pension scheme for government employees of the state after assuming power in the state.

JALALABAD (FEROZEPUR): Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said that SAD-BSP alliance was all set to sweep Punjab Assembly polls and people had already made up their mind to hand over the reins of the state to an alliance which would put the State back on the track of development and restart social welfare initiatives.

NAWANSHAHR:SBS Nagar Police have booked the organiser of BSP rally held on February 8 at Nawanshahar Dana Mandi for violating the orders of District Magistrate imposed under section 144.

JALANDHAR: Gurmat Sidhant Pracharak Sant Samaj today announced its support for the SAD-BSP alliance in the forthcoming assembly elections and urged all Sikhs and Punjabis to wholeheartedly support the alliance for the welfare of Punjab.

NAWANSHAHR: Nawanshahr Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM)-cum-Returning Officer Dr Baljinder Singh Dhillon issued notice to BSP-SAD candidate Nachhatar Pal for violation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during rally by Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on February 8 in grain market of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar.

PHILLAUR: The election campaign of Congress candidate Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary in assembly constituency Phillaur got a huge boost when the Phillaur media in-charge of Bahujan Samaj Party Dr Gian Chand Chaukdian along with hundreds of his colleagues bid farewell to BSP and joined the Congress party in the presence of Chaudhary.

NAWANSHAHR:While speaking at the rally, Sukhbir Badal announced the establishment of Baba Ambedkar University at Doaba Belt and Kanshi Ram Medical University in Punjab.

LAMBI:Former union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today said the next SAD-BSP government would revive all social welfare schemes which had been scrapped or severely curtailed by the Congress government even as she warned the people to beware of AAP’s failed Delhi Model which would result in withdrawal of all social benefits in Punjab.

LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday released a list of 54 candidates for the sixth phase of the Uttar pradesh Assembly polls and fielded Khwaja Shamsuddin from Gorakhpur Sadar against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

FAZILKA: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal said today the next SAD-BSP government would establish a Commission to probe all cases of political vendetta registered by former Pradesh Congress President Sunil Jakhar against his political opponents and would take action against all those responsible for booking innocents in false cases.

LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has appointed Seema Kushwaha, the lawyer in the Nirbhaya case who recently joined the party, as its national spokesperson.

PHAGWARA: Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday said the Bahujan Samaj Party has sold out interests of the Dalits to the Shiromani Akali Dal, with which it has forged an alliance for next month’s Assembly polls.

LALITPUR: The Lalitpur police have filed a charge sheet against former district presidents of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj (BSP), among others, in connection with the alleged gangrape of a 17-year-old girl.

BALLUABA:Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the next SAD-BSP alliance government would register a criminal case against Mr Charanjit Singh Channi for fraudulent misuse of public funds as chief minister for placing false advertisements.

AMRITSAR: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced all truck unions will be revived and a Transporters Welfare Board with a corpus of Rs 25 crore would be created once the next SAAD-BSP alliance government was formed besides coming out with a bonanza for auto-rickshaw owners by stating the alliance government would come out with a liberal policy to change all auto-rickshaws with e-rickshaws.

AMRITSAR:  Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the last SAD led government had put Amritsar on the world tourist map even as he promised to transform the holy city into an Information Technology (IT) and Convention centre under the next SAD- BSP alliance government.

CHANDIGARH: Katyayni Dwevedi the daughter of congress candidate from ward no 18, Saroj Sharma on Thursday has filed a complaint to State Election Commission over non-disclosure of pending criminal cases in the affidavit filed by BSP candidates Rajinder Kaur from ward no 18 in upcoming MC poll.

PARTAP PURA(Jalandhar): Punjab Chief Minister Mr Charanjit Singh Channi today said that BSP leadership has backstabbed the Schedule caste brethren by selling the party to Shiromani Akali Dal.

DERA BABA NANAK: Shiromani Akali Dal President Sardar Sukhbir Singh Badal today said that the next Akali Dal and BSP alliance government would review the decisions taken by the corrupt Congress government in the last three months and reverse the anti-people decisions. He said that the decisions which have to be reviewed and revoked include enrichment of Congress leaders and their relatives.

NEW DELHI:The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which has been left with only four MLAs in Uttar Pradesh Assembly, has reiterated that it will go solo in the 2022 polls as it has an "alliance" with the state's population.

JALANDHAR: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced that a Deputy chief minister would be sworn in from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the next SAD-BSP alliance government.

PHILLAUR: In a big jolt to Shiromani Akali Dal and Bahujan Samaj Party in Phillaur assembly constituency, many of their local leaders belonging to village Sargundi joined the Indian National Congress in presence of Jalandhar Member of Parliament Santokh Singh Chaudhary at his residence here on Sunday.

MUKERIAN:Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today the SAD-BSP alliance was committed to safeguard the interests of the farming community and once it came to power it would pass an Act making it mandatory for sugar mills to pay sugarcane growers their dues within the stipulated time frame.

BATHINDA: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced that once the SAD-BSP alliance was formed in Punjab, the Mukh Mantri Teerath Yatra scheme initiated by former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal would be restarted covering this ‘dham’ as well as places of worship of all religions.

LUCKNOW:  Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA and jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari will be contesting the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on the ticket of Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP).

BADAUN (UP): A special MP/MLA court in Badaun has sentenced Yogendra Sagar, a former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA, to life imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 30,000 in connection with the abduction and rape of a student 13 years ago.

PHAGWARA: Bahujan Samaj Party Punjab President Jasveer Singh Garhi and (SAD—BSP)candidate from Phagwara assembly constituency and SAD leader Sarwan Singh Kular have alleged that neither district civil administration nor health authorities are taking the gastroenteritis epidemic caused by contaminated water seriously.

VARANASI: Atul Rai, the jailed Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP from Ghosi and one of his accomplices, have now been booked under the Gangster Act.

HOSHIARPUR: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced formation of a separate ministry for Kandi Area Development once the SAD-BSP alliance formed the next government in the State.

LUCKNOW:  The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has said that it would legally fight the case of four deceased farmers in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.

LUCKNOW:  With the Nishad Party inching close to the ruling BJP and eyeing an alliance, the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) is on its way to striking an alliance with the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) of Bihar.

Mayawati to launch BSP campaign on Kanshi Ram's death anniversary

CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday formed an alliance to contest the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections together.

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal(SAD) and Bahujan Sanaj Party (BSP) today formed political alliance in Punjab to contest 2022 assembly elections together.

GORAKHPUR: (Uttar Pradesh): A dreaded gangster and accused in the murder of a BSP leader, who had been operating from Nepal, has been shot dead by the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) in an encounter.

SHAHJAHAPUR(Uttar Pradesh):Two daughters of a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader died after the scooter they were riding was hit by an unidentified vehicle.
The deceased -- aged 32 and 28, were daughters of former BSP district president Suresh Chandra Gautam.

BAREILLY(Uttar Pradesh):Former BSP MLA, Virender Singh, passed away on Tuesday afternoon in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly after a prolonged illness.

LUCKNOW :Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has announced that her party will contest the 2022 Assembly elections alone and will not enter into an alliance with any party.

LUCKNOW: A day after the violence in Delhi during the 'Tractor Rally' by protesting farmers, the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday hit out at the central government and again demanded the repeal of three new central farm laws.

LUCKNOW: A special MP/MLA court has ordered for the attachment of properties of Congress leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui and Bahujan Samaj Party leader Ram Achal Rajbhar for evading arrest in a criminal case.

CHANDIGARH: The Congress suffered a major setback in the district of Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, after senior leaders fed up with the party’s policies, joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday. These include Congress legislatorKaka Randeep Nabha's brother and Congress leader Jasdeep Singh Nikku. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) vigorously takes up issues related to every section of Punjab, playing the duty of being the main opposition party, due to which the party's base is getting stronger day by day.

VARANASI(Uttar Pradesh), Nov 24 (IANS) In an unexpected turn of events, an Uttar Pradesh court has ordered the police to book the girl, who alleged rape against Bahujan Samaj Party MP Atul Rai.

LUCKNOW:Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati has started screening and short-listing candidates for the 403 seats in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, which are still a year-and-a-half away.

LUCKNOW:Opposition parties Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh appear to be losing their key leaders to rival Samajwadi Party (SP).
Former MP Bal Kumar Patel, who had had been nominated to the UP Congress Outreach Committee in September, quit the party and joined the SP on Monday.

LUCKNOW: A Varanasi resident, Sudhir Singh, has filed a plea before the Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, seeking disqualification of jailed Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Mukhtar Ansari.

GHAZIPUR(Uttar Pradesh):A trader allegedly committed suicide and left behind a note saying that he was taking the extreme step because the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has not given him a ticket to contest the 2022 Assembly elections.

LUCKNOW:The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has a tendency to split at regular intervals and the revolt of five MLAs on Wednesday is the fourth in the series.
The first split in the BSP took place in June 1995, hours after the infamous state guesthouse incident where BSP MLAs were allegedly locked inside by Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders for almost 30 hours.

LUCKNOW: In an unprecedented development, five legislators of Bahujan Samaj Party have withdrawn their support to the BSP's official candidate, Ramji Gautam, for the Rajya Sabha biennial elections.

LUCKNOW:In an unprecedented development, five legislators of Bahujan Samaj Party have withdrawn their support to the BSP's official candidate, Ramji Gautam, for the Rajya Sabha biennial elections.

LUCKNOW:Former Union Minister and Congress leader Salim Iqbal Sherwani, former BSP MP Tribhuvan Dutt, former BSP MLA Babboo Khan, and the wife of sitting BSP MLA from Hapur, Aslam Chaudhary, on Tuesday joined the Samajwadi Party.

LUCKNOW:With the announcement of only eight candidates for the upcoming biennial elections to the Raya Sabha, the BJP has left the field open for the unopposed election of the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Ramji Gautam.

LUCKNOW:Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Vinay Shankar Tiwari, who faced a CBI raid, issued a statement on Tuesday, claiming that the action was 'politically motivated and he was paying the price for being a Brahmin'.

BULANDSHAHR(Uttar Pradesh):The CB-CID has arrested Anas Alim for the murder of his father and former BSP MLA Haji Alim.
The former BSP MLA was found dead in mysterious circumstances in his Bulandshahr residence on October 10, 2018.

LUCKNOW:Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar is putting his Lucknow visit to good use even if he has been prevented from participating in the anti-CAA protests at the Clock Tower.

LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party is losing its base very rapidly in Uttar Pradesh.

As the heat of the Lok Sabha elections reaches its pinnacle, a BSP candidate has gone missing. An FIR registered in a Varanasi police station accuses him of sexual assault.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Tuesday announced candidates for five more Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.

he Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party (SP-BSP) alliance has announced Arun Shankar Shukla, alias Anna Maharaj, as its candidate from the Unnao Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh.

With less than a month to go for the Lok Sabha elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Friday announced its candidates for 11 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh.

A day after the Congress announced that it will not contest on seven Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP leader Mayawati on Monday said that their alliance was capable of defeating the BJP.

NEW DELHI: Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha says the BSP and Samajwadi Party opposition unity against the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections is a "work in progress" but feels that the two parties should have included Congress in the alliance in Uttar Pradesh that would have "finished the game".

By Satinder Bains
CHANDIGARH: The Bhartiaya Janta Party(BJP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) long time alliance partners in Punjab have been chalking out their strategies to contest assembly elections of 2007 independently or with new political partners.