Mayawati-akhilesh Yadav Alliance

On his first visit to Lucknow after getting re-elected to Parliament, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in the General Election was a big thing as the party increased its seats and the vote share despite the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance.

The alliance of Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav has spectacularly failed to stop the march of the BJP through Uttar Pradesh, the state that sends the highest number of lawmakers to parliament. The BJP is leading in 62 of the state's 80 seats - 11 short of the 73 seats it won along with ally Apna Dal in 2014.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ramping up his attack against the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance, today said the two parties will rip off each other's clothes once the national election results are declared on May 23.

Former Union Minister P Chidambaram today answered the criticism that the Congress move to contest all the seats in Uttar Pradesh would eat into the votes of the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav combine and end up hurting the alliance more than the BJP.

With just two weeks to go for the national elections, the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav combine is busy mopping up tiny regional parties that have big influence in certain pockets of Uttar Pradesh.

As Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav both snubbed the Congress for its "offer" to set aside seven Uttar Pradesh seats for their alliance in next month's national election, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra reminded that their common goal was to defeat the BJP.

The Congress "offer" of seven seats in Uttar Pradesh to the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance for next month's national election has provoked the classic brush-off - thanks but no thanks.

The Congress on Sunday said it won't contest seven seats in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and leave them for the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has some advice for Congress in the run-up to the national elections - "take notes" from the BJP, which despite all ups and downs, has stuck to its allies. "They (the BJP) know that to come to power, you have to respect other parties.

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily said on Thursday his party did not want the SP-BSP-RLD alliance to lose in Uttar Pradesh and that it may enter into an understanding with the ''ghatbandhan'' in segments where it is not strong in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Uttar Pradesh will vote in all seven phases from April 11 to May 19 in the national election. With the maximum number of seats, the politically vital state is set to host the most-watched election battle that will test an opposition alliance of bitter rivals Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav, joining hands to take on the BJP, which scooped a colossal 73 ...

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati held a strategy session with senior leaders of her party to take a call on the way forward in the backdrop of the terror attacks in the country and the escalation of tension with Pakistan. The Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance is contesting the coming national elections in three states - Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Prade...

After Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Bengal, the idea of a grand alliance or "mahagathbandhan" of opposition parties against the ruling BJP seems to have crumpled in two more states ahead of the national election. Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav have extended their alliance to Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand, taking their non-Congress grouping to more places ...

Issuing a threat to the BJP, one of its allies in Uttar Pradesh - the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party said on Sunday it will part ways with the party if the recommendations of the Social Justice Committee are not implemented by February 24.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's political plunge has created a flutter across parties. The straight contest in Uttar Pradesh between the BJP and the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance has now turned into a three-cornered fight.

On his first visit to Lucknow after getting re-elected to Parliament, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in the General Election was a big thing as the party increased its seats and the vote share despite the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance.

The alliance of Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav has spectacularly failed to stop the march of the BJP through Uttar Pradesh, the state that sends the highest number of lawmakers to parliament. The BJP is leading in 62 of the state's 80 seats - 11 short of the 73 seats it won along with ally Apna Dal in 2014.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ramping up his attack against the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance, today said the two parties will rip off each other's clothes once the national election results are declared on May 23.

Former Union Minister P Chidambaram today answered the criticism that the Congress move to contest all the seats in Uttar Pradesh would eat into the votes of the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav combine and end up hurting the alliance more than the BJP.

With just two weeks to go for the national elections, the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav combine is busy mopping up tiny regional parties that have big influence in certain pockets of Uttar Pradesh.

As Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav both snubbed the Congress for its "offer" to set aside seven Uttar Pradesh seats for their alliance in next month's national election, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra reminded that their common goal was to defeat the BJP.

The Congress "offer" of seven seats in Uttar Pradesh to the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance for next month's national election has provoked the classic brush-off - thanks but no thanks.

The Congress on Sunday said it won't contest seven seats in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and leave them for the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has some advice for Congress in the run-up to the national elections - "take notes" from the BJP, which despite all ups and downs, has stuck to its allies. "They (the BJP) know that to come to power, you have to respect other parties.

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily said on Thursday his party did not want the SP-BSP-RLD alliance to lose in Uttar Pradesh and that it may enter into an understanding with the ''ghatbandhan'' in segments where it is not strong in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Uttar Pradesh will vote in all seven phases from April 11 to May 19 in the national election. With the maximum number of seats, the politically vital state is set to host the most-watched election battle that will test an opposition alliance of bitter rivals Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav, joining hands to take on the BJP, which scooped a colossal 73 ...

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati held a strategy session with senior leaders of her party to take a call on the way forward in the backdrop of the terror attacks in the country and the escalation of tension with Pakistan. The Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance is contesting the coming national elections in three states - Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Prade...

After Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Bengal, the idea of a grand alliance or "mahagathbandhan" of opposition parties against the ruling BJP seems to have crumpled in two more states ahead of the national election. Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav have extended their alliance to Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand, taking their non-Congress grouping to more places ...

Issuing a threat to the BJP, one of its allies in Uttar Pradesh - the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party said on Sunday it will part ways with the party if the recommendations of the Social Justice Committee are not implemented by February 24.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's political plunge has created a flutter across parties. The straight contest in Uttar Pradesh between the BJP and the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav alliance has now turned into a three-cornered fight.