Mamata And Mulayam

BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday urged party workers to ask people whether they wanted Congress chief Rahul Gandhi as prime minister, Mamata Banerjee as foreign minister and Mulayam Singh Yadav as defence minister.

At his grand anti-BJP rally in Patna, Lalu Yadav today vented ire on former ally Nitish Kumar, saying he had agreed to let Mr Kumar be the Chief Minister only after pressure from ally Sharad Yadav and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh. On the dais with him was Sharad Yadav, and Akhilesh Yadav, the son of Mulayam Singh and former Chief Minist...

Imagine if Vikram Chandra was hosting an episode of The Big Fight and the seven politicians taking part were: Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi, Mulayam Singh, Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee, Jayalalitha and Uddhav Thackeray? Now imagine, this is beamed LIVE to a national audience as they debated policy, personality and ultimately the possibility of each of t...

With the national elections just three months away, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav once again made a strong pitch for a 'third front' on Saturday.

YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy today met Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata and sought her support in his campaign against the division of Andhra Pradesh for a separate Telangana state.

After two days of stormy debate, lawmakers in the Lok Sabha voted in favour of the government's big policy decision to open up the country's highly-protected retail industry to foreign chains such as Walmart. 471 of the Lok Sabha's 545 members voted; 253 MPs voted against the BJP motion that challenged the policy and 218 voted for it.

In a second round of bold and politically contentious reforms, the Cabinet has cleared proposals to allow more Foreign Direct Investment or FDI in the insurance and pension sectors.

Tonight at 8, the PM will explain on television the economic measures for which he has staked his government, which is now in a minority. Sources say he will point out that the reforms are crucial to jumpstart the economy and to create employment. "Lots of distortion is going on...some misinformation campaign is going on," said V Narayanasamy, Mi...

The Prime Minister's determination to "stay the course" and implement politically-risky reforms has hurtled his government into a minority.

Large parts of India where the Congress is not in power were hit today by a strike or bandh against the government's recent decisions to increase diesel prices, and allow Foreign Direct Investment or FDI in multi-brand retail. Industry assocation CII says the strike causes losses of 12,500 crores because of the disruption in production and trade....

Mulayam Singh Yadav, crucial to the survival of the UPA government, is making the Congress squirm. He co-starred with Left leaders today in a massive protest in Delhi against the new reforms introduced by Dr Manmohan Singh. Like the Left and the BJP, the Samajwadi Party chief is also against opening India's vast retail sector to foreign super-chai...

In a rare show of unity, leaders from the Left and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came together today to denounce the decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail trade. At a protest rally organised by traders in the heart of the capital, BJP and Communist leaders lashed out at the government for what they said was a policy t...

Will a fear of Narendra Modi rising keep the Samajwadi Party from dumping the Congress? That and a need to ensure that his arch rival in Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, does not get closer to power at the Centre is likely to influence Mulayam Singh Yadav's decision-making - with his 22 Lok Sabha MPs, the outside support Mr Yadav provides to the UPA has b...

Unwilling to give in to Mamata Banerjee's demands, the Congress has virtually written off her differences as irreconcilable and is trying to consolidate the support of other key partners to ward off mid-term elections.

With Mamata Banerjee withdrawing from the UPA, the survival of Dr Manmohan Singh's government depends largely upon the two powerhouses from Uttar Pradesh- Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati.

BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday urged party workers to ask people whether they wanted Congress chief Rahul Gandhi as prime minister, Mamata Banerjee as foreign minister and Mulayam Singh Yadav as defence minister.

At his grand anti-BJP rally in Patna, Lalu Yadav today vented ire on former ally Nitish Kumar, saying he had agreed to let Mr Kumar be the Chief Minister only after pressure from ally Sharad Yadav and Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh. On the dais with him was Sharad Yadav, and Akhilesh Yadav, the son of Mulayam Singh and former Chief Minist...

Imagine if Vikram Chandra was hosting an episode of The Big Fight and the seven politicians taking part were: Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi, Mulayam Singh, Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee, Jayalalitha and Uddhav Thackeray? Now imagine, this is beamed LIVE to a national audience as they debated policy, personality and ultimately the possibility of each of t...

With the national elections just three months away, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav once again made a strong pitch for a 'third front' on Saturday.

YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy today met Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata and sought her support in his campaign against the division of Andhra Pradesh for a separate Telangana state.

After two days of stormy debate, lawmakers in the Lok Sabha voted in favour of the government's big policy decision to open up the country's highly-protected retail industry to foreign chains such as Walmart. 471 of the Lok Sabha's 545 members voted; 253 MPs voted against the BJP motion that challenged the policy and 218 voted for it.

In a second round of bold and politically contentious reforms, the Cabinet has cleared proposals to allow more Foreign Direct Investment or FDI in the insurance and pension sectors.

Tonight at 8, the PM will explain on television the economic measures for which he has staked his government, which is now in a minority. Sources say he will point out that the reforms are crucial to jumpstart the economy and to create employment. "Lots of distortion is going on...some misinformation campaign is going on," said V Narayanasamy, Mi...

The Prime Minister's determination to "stay the course" and implement politically-risky reforms has hurtled his government into a minority.

Large parts of India where the Congress is not in power were hit today by a strike or bandh against the government's recent decisions to increase diesel prices, and allow Foreign Direct Investment or FDI in multi-brand retail. Industry assocation CII says the strike causes losses of 12,500 crores because of the disruption in production and trade....

Mulayam Singh Yadav, crucial to the survival of the UPA government, is making the Congress squirm. He co-starred with Left leaders today in a massive protest in Delhi against the new reforms introduced by Dr Manmohan Singh. Like the Left and the BJP, the Samajwadi Party chief is also against opening India's vast retail sector to foreign super-chai...

In a rare show of unity, leaders from the Left and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came together today to denounce the decision to allow Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail trade. At a protest rally organised by traders in the heart of the capital, BJP and Communist leaders lashed out at the government for what they said was a policy t...

Will a fear of Narendra Modi rising keep the Samajwadi Party from dumping the Congress? That and a need to ensure that his arch rival in Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, does not get closer to power at the Centre is likely to influence Mulayam Singh Yadav's decision-making - with his 22 Lok Sabha MPs, the outside support Mr Yadav provides to the UPA has b...

Unwilling to give in to Mamata Banerjee's demands, the Congress has virtually written off her differences as irreconcilable and is trying to consolidate the support of other key partners to ward off mid-term elections.

With Mamata Banerjee withdrawing from the UPA, the survival of Dr Manmohan Singh's government depends largely upon the two powerhouses from Uttar Pradesh- Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati.