Praveen Nishad

Nishad Party chief Sanjay Nishad, an ally of the BJP, has expressed disappointment over his son and MP Praveen Nishad not being included in the Union cabinet after the reshuffle.

Praveen Nishad, the giant killer who dealt a massive defeat to the BJP in its stronghold Gorakhpur last year, is now a BJP lawmaker.

Samajwadi leader Akhilesh Yadav, under whose banner Praveen Kumar Nishad won last year's by-election for the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat, had a pithy comment when the Nishad Party leader joined the BJP today. The BJP, he tweeted, had made a "loss-making deal" and alleged that the Nishad leader had been bribed into making the switch.

The giant-killer of Gorakhpur, Praveen Nishad, today joined the BJP, the party over which he had won a surprise victory in by-polls last year. The twist in one of BJP's safest seats in Uttar Pradesh, facilitated by the unlikely alliance of arch-enemies Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), set a template for the opposition gathbandhan for ...

The Samajwadi Party has officially confirmed the end of its alliance with an eastern UP party whose giant killing act on the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat in the 2018 bypolls cemented Akhilesh Yadav's alliance or "gathbandhan" with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party.

The politician who did the unthinkable by defeating the BJP in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur in the 2018 Lok Sabha bypolls may switch over to the BJP, in what could be a blow to the Akhilesh Yadav-Mayawati-Ajit Singh coalition in Uttar Pradesh.

As tension simmered at Aligarh Muslim University over a portrait of the Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Samajwadi Party lawmaker Praveen Nishad compared the contribution of Gandhi and Nehru to that of Jinnah during the freedom struggle.

Pravin Nishad, the candidate supported by the Samajwadi Party in Gorakhpur, on Sunday spoke of a "bigger alliance" if the Samajwadi Party, which has pulled off an electoral arrangement with arch rival Mayawati, wins. Under the pact, for the first time in 25 years, the arch rivals are on the same side to stop the BJP march - an understanding that wa...

Nishad Party chief Sanjay Nishad, an ally of the BJP, has expressed disappointment over his son and MP Praveen Nishad not being included in the Union cabinet after the reshuffle.

Praveen Nishad, the giant killer who dealt a massive defeat to the BJP in its stronghold Gorakhpur last year, is now a BJP lawmaker.

Samajwadi leader Akhilesh Yadav, under whose banner Praveen Kumar Nishad won last year's by-election for the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat, had a pithy comment when the Nishad Party leader joined the BJP today. The BJP, he tweeted, had made a "loss-making deal" and alleged that the Nishad leader had been bribed into making the switch.

The giant-killer of Gorakhpur, Praveen Nishad, today joined the BJP, the party over which he had won a surprise victory in by-polls last year. The twist in one of BJP's safest seats in Uttar Pradesh, facilitated by the unlikely alliance of arch-enemies Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), set a template for the opposition gathbandhan for ...

The Samajwadi Party has officially confirmed the end of its alliance with an eastern UP party whose giant killing act on the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat in the 2018 bypolls cemented Akhilesh Yadav's alliance or "gathbandhan" with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party.

The politician who did the unthinkable by defeating the BJP in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur in the 2018 Lok Sabha bypolls may switch over to the BJP, in what could be a blow to the Akhilesh Yadav-Mayawati-Ajit Singh coalition in Uttar Pradesh.

As tension simmered at Aligarh Muslim University over a portrait of the Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Samajwadi Party lawmaker Praveen Nishad compared the contribution of Gandhi and Nehru to that of Jinnah during the freedom struggle.

Pravin Nishad, the candidate supported by the Samajwadi Party in Gorakhpur, on Sunday spoke of a "bigger alliance" if the Samajwadi Party, which has pulled off an electoral arrangement with arch rival Mayawati, wins. Under the pact, for the first time in 25 years, the arch rivals are on the same side to stop the BJP march - an understanding that wa...