SP-BSP Alliance
4 articles on India Vote Kar are tagged “SP-BSP Alliance”, published between January 2019 and April 2019. They are filed mainly under BSP, SP, BJP. They are listed below, newest first, followed by related coverage and topics.
Akhilesh and Mulayam are BJP agents, alleges Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar
Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar Azad alleged on Wednesday that Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav were “agents” of the BJP, and said he would drop his plan to contest from Varanasi if his candidature hurt the Dalit movement. Hitting back at Mayawati Chandrashekhar spoke at a public meeting in Jaipur, days after BSP chief Mayawati called him a BJP agent and claimed his Varanasi bid was part of a BJP plot to divide the Dalit vote. Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party is in alliance with theRead More
How Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav overcame differences before their UP alliance
Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav, once bitter rivals, worked through a crisis that threatened their partnership soon after the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections in March last year. They kept their distance from each other’s opponents and from the Congress, and decided months in advance to take on the BJP together in the 2019 general election. On Saturday they announced that their parties would contest 38 seats each in Uttar Pradesh. The early rift After the Samajwadi Party won Gorakhpur and Phulpur with the support of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party,Read More
BJP to lean on Modi in UP as it targets SP-BSP alliance and juggles restive allies
The BJP planned to rely on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaigning in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the general election, portraying the SP-BSP alliance as full of contradictions and highlighting what it called corruption under both parties’ governments. At the same time, the party faced pressure from its own allies in the state, Apna Dal and the SBSP. Modi’s schedule and the campaign line People aware of the plans said the Prime Minister would address a rally in Agra on January 9 and another in Aligarh, visit Varanasi twice and LucknowRead More
Akhilesh Yadav says BJP using CBI against SP and BSP after alliance talks
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday accused the Narendra Modi government of using the CBI against leaders of the SP and the BSP because the BJP was nervous about their alliance. He described CBI raids on SP and BSP leaders and IAS officers in an illegal mining case as politically motivated. “Earlier, the Congress gave the opportunity to meet the CBI, now the BJP has given it,” he said. The BJP quickly hit back, noting that the Allahabad High Court took up the matter in 2016 and handed itRead More
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