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'We don’t believe in casteist slur on anyone': BJP gen secy dismisses Akhilesh Yadav's ‘Shudra’ narrative

LUCKNOW: Days after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav questioned the BJP if he was a “Shudra”, Union minister and BJP national general secretary Bhupendra Yadav on Sunday said that his party did not believe in levelling casteist slur on anyone. “He (Akhilesh Yadav) needs to answer as to why he…

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More focused on ensuring party’s winning streak in polls: Swami Prasad Maurya’s BJP MP daughter

LUCKNOW: Preferring not to respond any further on her father and Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya’s controversial comment on Ramcharitmanas, BJP’s Badaun MP Sanghmitra Maurya said on Monday that she was more focused on ensuring that her party continues with its election winning streak.

The Times of India

Over 10 Persons Booked In Lucknow For Burning Pages Of Ramcharitmanas

Lucknow Police have booked more than 10 people for "promoting enmity" after they allegedly burnt photocopies of the pages of Ramcharitmanas in the Vrindavan area of the city on Sunday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Swami Prasad's comment on Ramcharitmas is that of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav: UP dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya

LUCKNOW: Deputy CM of Uttar Pradesh Keshav Prasad Maurya on Tuesday stepped up attack on Samajwadi Party accusing its president Akhilesh Yadav of giving his silent nod to his leader Swami Prasad Maurya's comment on Ramcharitmas.

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With 2024 Lok Sabha polls in mind, BJP wooing back OBC leaders who had left before U.P. Assembly polls

Leaders like Swami Prasad Maurya, Dara Singh Chauhan, Dharam Singh Saini, Madhuri Verma, Vinay Shakya and others had left the BJP in the run up to the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls and crossed over to the Samajwadi Party

The Hindu

Shrikant Tyagi row: Swami Prasad Maurya sends legal notice to Noida top cop

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party MLC and former minister Swami Prasad Maurya has sent a legal notice to the Noida police commissioner for identifying him as the person who had got a forged MLA pass issued to Shrikant Tyagi.

The Times of India

Signs of a dead end for social justice politics

The success of the OBC alliance in 2015 in Bihar may be difficult to replicate in the Hindi heartland

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Noida politician Shrikant Tyagi arrested from Meerut

The self-styled politician was wanted for assaulting a woman who questioned him for encroaching on common area of a posh Noida society

The Hindu

After BSP’s cold shoulder, SBSP says it never approached the party

Samajwadi Party dubs Rajbhar’s politics as ‘hollow’ and bereft of ideology

The Hindu

Uttar Pradesh council polls: Samajwadi Party sticks to Muslim-Yadav formula as candidates file papers

LUCKNOW: Accompanied by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, party leaders Swami Prasad Maurya, Mukul Yadav, Jasmir Ansari and Shahnawaz Khan filed their nomination papers on Thursday for the June 20 UP legislative council elections. The choice of candidates suggests that the party has not only focused on the backwards but…

The Times of India

Swami Prasad Maurya to enter U.P. Assembly through MLC route

The former Cabinet Minister in BSP and BJP governments filed his papers as SP candidate

The Hindu

Four Samajwadi Party candidates file nomination for UP council polls

The Times of India

Communal shadow over SP puts Akhilesh in fix over Karhal

Insiders believe that appointing Swami Prasad Maurya as the state head could help in consolidating the non Yadav OBC vote bank behind the party

The Hindu

U.P. Election Results 2022 live updates | BJP poised to return; Yogi Adityanath breaks the ‘Noida jinx’

Live updates on results of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, which was held in seven phases.

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Attack on 25-car convoy of Maurya in Kushinagar

GORAKHPUR: The convoy of Samajwadi Party (SP) Fazilnagar, Kushinagar candidate Swami Prasad Maurya was attacked near Vishupura Khanwa Patti village in Kushinagar district by some miscreants with wooden sticks and stones, injuring several persons. Many vehicles were also damaged in the attack. The police are investigating the matter.

The Times of India

UP polls: Swami Prasad Maurya battles SP turncoat & BJP in triangular revenge war

FAZILNAGAR: It is an election of prestige in Fazilnagar. While on one hand, the reputation of turncoat and former minister in BJP government Swami Prasad Maurya is at stake as he eyes to enter the state assembly for the sixth time, the ruling BJP has made it a matter of…

The Hindu

Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls | BJP MP Sanghamitra campaigns for her father, now SP’s Swami Prasad Maurya

Last day of canvassing for the sixth phase of the U.P. Assembly polls throws up surprise

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Uttar Pradesh elections: Swami Prasad Maurya battles against SP turncoat, BJP's quest for revenge

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Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022 | BSP releases list of 54 candidates, fields Khwaja Samsuddin against Adityanath

Santosh Tiwari has been fielded by the BSP from Fazilnagar Assembly constituency to take on SP candidate Swami Prasad Maurya

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Uttar Pradesh elections: SP releases names of 15 more candidates, Maurya shifted from Padrauna to Fazilnagar

LUCKNOW: Former UP minister Swami Prasad Maurya, who defected from the BJP to join the Samajwadi Party last month, will contest the 2022 Assembly elections from Fazilnagar constituency.

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UP polls: Samajwadi Party fields former ministers Swami Prasad Maurya from Fazilnagar, Abhishek Mishra from Sarojini Nagar

Samajwadi Party has fielded Swami Prasad Maurya, who was a minister the Yogi Adityanath government and resigned from BJP weeks ahead of the BJP ahead of Assembly polls, from Fazilnagar of Kushinagar district.

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BJP tampering with reservation, bypassing the constitutional system: Swami Prasad Maurya

The BJP is the Indian British, and follows the policy of divide and rule, says former U.P. Minister

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The cracks in U.P.’s ‘socially engineered’ caste wall

There could be an electoral fallout with backward communities feeling a sense of estrangement with Hindutva politics

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Keshav, the RSS’ home-grown Maurya

Party banks on him for OBC support.

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