Sp In Rajya Sabha

Opposition parties - led by Congress stalwart Sonia Gandhi - walked out of the Rajya Sabha, yet again, on Friday afternoon in support of Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan to protest a recurrence of the 'Jaya Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan' row.

Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Jaya Bachchan on Monday once again raised an objection when Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar called out her full name in the House and labelled it as a "new drama" started in the Parliament.

While the BJP gave ticket to Ujjwal Nikam who argued against 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab, Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP) gave Rajya Sabha ticket to Majeed Memon, a lawyer who defended the terrorist in court.

Hours after at least five Samajwadi Party (SP) legislators in Uttar Pradesh cross-voted in the election to Rajya Sabha, party chief Akhilesh Yadav said SP's decision to field a third candidate was actually a "test"

The Samajwadi Party (SP) today nominated Ramjilal Suman, Jaya Bachchan and former IAS officer Alok Ranjan as its candidates for the Rajya Sabha in Uttar Pradesh.

The Uttar Pradesh government is charging Rs 20 per quintal in cash in the name of unloading and cleaning charges for wheat procured from farmers and has not reimbursed them in the last three years, an MP in Rajya Sabha alleged.

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.

The violence of Delhi caused ripples in parliament today as members of the government and the opposition engaged in scuffles, demanded resignation of the Prime Minister and the home minister and caused a series of adjournments. The scuffle took place in the Lok Sabha after the Speaker turned down the opposition's demand to discuss the violence, say...

Rajya Sabha proceedings on Wednesday were adjourned till noon after opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) members created ruckus in the House over different issues.

Clearly indicating that her "friendship" with the Samajwadi Party would continue, BSP president Mayawati on Monday met the party's coordinators to apprise them of "new strategy" to defeat the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, party leaders said.

Mayawati, chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party that lost out to the ruling BJP in Friday's Rajya Sabha elections, has promised to make the ruling party pay for the setback in the 2019 general elections. She said the BJP was desperate to defeat her candidate in the expectation that she would break up the nascent alliance with Akhilesh Yadav's party but ...

Sending a signal of solidarity to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) whose lone candidate backed by it lost in the Rajya Sabha polls, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has cancelled the victory celebration for its nominee Jaya Bachchan to be held in the state capital on Saturday.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today hit out at the BJP claiming that the ruling party was desperate to defeat her party's candidate to drive a wedge between BSP and the Samajwadi Party that, she underlined, had been giving the BJP leaders "sleepless nights". But they won't succeed, she declared.

This round of elections to the Rajya Sabha has come as a big boon for the ruling BJP, as it is for the first time in history that the party has emerged as the single-largest group in the Upper House.

The race for a single Rajya Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh became a thriller on Friday as Mayawati faced the manoeuvrers of a BJP out for revenge after she helped the Samajwadi Party (SP) win two of its safest parliamentary seats just days ago.

Opposition parties - led by Congress stalwart Sonia Gandhi - walked out of the Rajya Sabha, yet again, on Friday afternoon in support of Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan to protest a recurrence of the 'Jaya Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan' row.

Samajwadi Party (SP) MP Jaya Bachchan on Monday once again raised an objection when Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar called out her full name in the House and labelled it as a "new drama" started in the Parliament.

While the BJP gave ticket to Ujjwal Nikam who argued against 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Ajmal Kasab, Sharad Pawar's NCP (SP) gave Rajya Sabha ticket to Majeed Memon, a lawyer who defended the terrorist in court.

Hours after at least five Samajwadi Party (SP) legislators in Uttar Pradesh cross-voted in the election to Rajya Sabha, party chief Akhilesh Yadav said SP's decision to field a third candidate was actually a "test"

The Samajwadi Party (SP) today nominated Ramjilal Suman, Jaya Bachchan and former IAS officer Alok Ranjan as its candidates for the Rajya Sabha in Uttar Pradesh.

The Uttar Pradesh government is charging Rs 20 per quintal in cash in the name of unloading and cleaning charges for wheat procured from farmers and has not reimbursed them in the last three years, an MP in Rajya Sabha alleged.

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.

The violence of Delhi caused ripples in parliament today as members of the government and the opposition engaged in scuffles, demanded resignation of the Prime Minister and the home minister and caused a series of adjournments. The scuffle took place in the Lok Sabha after the Speaker turned down the opposition's demand to discuss the violence, say...

Rajya Sabha proceedings on Wednesday were adjourned till noon after opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) members created ruckus in the House over different issues.

Clearly indicating that her "friendship" with the Samajwadi Party would continue, BSP president Mayawati on Monday met the party's coordinators to apprise them of "new strategy" to defeat the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, party leaders said.

Mayawati, chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party that lost out to the ruling BJP in Friday's Rajya Sabha elections, has promised to make the ruling party pay for the setback in the 2019 general elections. She said the BJP was desperate to defeat her candidate in the expectation that she would break up the nascent alliance with Akhilesh Yadav's party but ...

Sending a signal of solidarity to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) whose lone candidate backed by it lost in the Rajya Sabha polls, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has cancelled the victory celebration for its nominee Jaya Bachchan to be held in the state capital on Saturday.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today hit out at the BJP claiming that the ruling party was desperate to defeat her party's candidate to drive a wedge between BSP and the Samajwadi Party that, she underlined, had been giving the BJP leaders "sleepless nights". But they won't succeed, she declared.

This round of elections to the Rajya Sabha has come as a big boon for the ruling BJP, as it is for the first time in history that the party has emerged as the single-largest group in the Upper House.

The race for a single Rajya Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh became a thriller on Friday as Mayawati faced the manoeuvrers of a BJP out for revenge after she helped the Samajwadi Party (SP) win two of its safest parliamentary seats just days ago.