Samajwadi Party In Upa

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  Atiq Ahmed Had Defied Party Whip, Voted Against UPA Government In 2008

  As the Manmohan Singh government battled for survival in 2008 over the Indo-US civil nuclear deal, the then Samajwadi Party MP Atiq Ahmad defied his party whip and voted against the confidence motion which the ruling UPA coalition had won

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  Rajya Sabha Member Amar Singh Dies At 64

  Former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh has died after battling an illness. He was 64. He had gone to a hospital in Singapore in March for surgery in a kidney-related illness.

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  On PM's Congress-Samajwadi "Games" Allegations, Mayawati's Unity Message

  Mayawati today countered Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remark that Congress and the Samajwadi Party were using her, with a strong message of unity. The Congress, who had been kept out of the Uttar Pradesh alliance, mainly because of her reservations, will get every alliance vote in Amethi and Raebareli, she said. The alliance is not contesting the...

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  Amit Shah Says BJP Will 'Uproot' Samajwadi Party, BSP From Uttar Pradesh

  Drawing a contrast between "scam-tainted" UPA government and "unblemished" NDA-led Centre, which completed two years in office, BJP chief Amit Shah today said the party will "uproot" the Samajwadi Party and BSP from Uttar Pradesh in the 2017 Assembly polls.

• Nitish Kumar, Mulayam Singh Yadav in 11-party front to battle Congress, BJP in Lok Sabha polls

  11 parties today decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections together to provide an alternative to the Congress-led UPA and the BJP-led NDA.

• Rahul Gandhi in Muzaffarnagar, Sonia meets Jat leaders: Congress in election mode?

  In what seemed like a perfect balancing act, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's early morning visit on Sunday to the camps of riot victims of Muzzafarnagar coincided with a Jat delegation calling on party president Sonia Gandhi to thank her for UPA's decision to recommended reservation for jats.

• Lokpal Bill faces Monday test as Samajwadi Party warns government

  The anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, for which Anna Hazare is fasting in Maharashtra, will be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. The Samajwadi Party, which opposes the bill, repeatedly disrupted house today and threatened to support a no-confidence motion on Telangana if the government pushed the Lokpal Bill.

• Delhi: Government allows Mayawati to retain five bungalows in city's VIP zone

  The UPA government has allowed Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati to retain five sprawling bungalows in the Lutyen's zone in the capital, the most high security address in the country that houses top ministers and officials.

• Mulayam Singh Yadav's party disagrees with government's u-turn on ordinance

  The government today withdrew a controversial ordinance to protect convicted law-makers, a decision driven largely by its vice-president Rahul Gandhi. An important ally, the Samajwadi Party, said it disagrees with the change in policy.

• Congress ready with Food Bill, but BJP wants PM statement on missing coal files first

  Congress president Sonia Gandhi is likely to make a rare speech in Parliament if the UPA's Food Security Bill is debated in Parliament today, hours before she formally rolls out the landmark scheme in three Congress-ruled states, Delhi, Haryana and Uttarakhand.

• Food Security Bill introduced amid protests over killing of Indian soldiers by Pakistanis

  The UPA government introduced the Food Security Bill in Parliament Wednesday amid slogan shouting and protests by the Opposition over the killing of five Indians by Pakistanis on Tuesday morning.

• Akhilesh decision on IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal correct, final: Mulayam Singh Yadav

  Durga Shakti Nagpal case: Despite a national uproar over the suspension of IAS officer Durga Nagpal Shakti, the decision to remove her from her office in Noida is "final and correct," said Mulayam Singh Yadav, chief of the ruling Samajwadi Party and father of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

• Durga Shakti effect in Parliament? Mulayam's party says will vote against Food Bill

  Monsoon session: In 16 working days of a short monsoon session of Parliament, the government hopes to push 44 Bills, including five ordinances.

• Politicians vs Judiciary: Parties oppose court order banning jailed politicians from polls

  They may not agree on most issues but all political parties have united to oppose the Supreme Court's rulings that politicians in jail can't contest elections and lawmakers convicted of a crime have to quit immediately.

• Mulayam meets PM, wants 10 changes in food security ordinance: sources

  Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has reportedly told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that his party will not support the Food Security Bill unless his amendments are incorporated.