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As Mulayam Singh Yadav's traditional stronghold votes in the fifth phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections, son Akhilesh Yadav has sought to clear all doubt on who the party's candidate for Chief Minister is. The father, he says, not the son.

A helicopter, a convoy of big cars, a red carpet and a line of officials in their Sunday best to greet their Chief Minister as Mayawati arrived at the Rashtriya Dalit Smarak in Noida to inaugurate her dream 33-acre park on Friday evening.

Whether six women were raped by policemen in Greater Noida during a weekend in May has become a political point of such significance that three different committees have been roped in for their assessment.

Constructions are on at Mayawati's pet memorial projects in Lucknow at break-neck speed, much against her own promise.

As Mulayam Singh Yadav's traditional stronghold votes in the fifth phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections, son Akhilesh Yadav has sought to clear all doubt on who the party's candidate for Chief Minister is. The father, he says, not the son.

A helicopter, a convoy of big cars, a red carpet and a line of officials in their Sunday best to greet their Chief Minister as Mayawati arrived at the Rashtriya Dalit Smarak in Noida to inaugurate her dream 33-acre park on Friday evening.

Whether six women were raped by policemen in Greater Noida during a weekend in May has become a political point of such significance that three different committees have been roped in for their assessment.

Constructions are on at Mayawati's pet memorial projects in Lucknow at break-neck speed, much against her own promise.