BSP (BSP)

Newsmaker | Afzal Ansari: The 'brains' of the family, guilty by association due to brother Mukhtar, say supporters

May 01, 2023 11:39 am

The elder brother of gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari set to lose his Lok Sabha membership after conviction in a Gangster Act; cleared earlier in other cases

Delhi Confidential: As it fields 11 Muslim faces, a different tack by BSP

May 01, 2023 8:09 am

Many political observers have been pointing out that the BSP’s decision to field 11 Muslim faces as mayoral candidates in the upcoming UP civic polls signals a change in tack by the party.

BSP MP Afzal Ansari sentenced to 4 years in jail, likely to lose Lok Sabha membership

April 29, 2023 7:30 pm

Earlier in the day, the same UP court had convicted and sentenced Afzal Ansari’s younger brother, jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, to 10 years imprisonment

In new social engineering for UP civic polls, Mayawati replaces Brahmins with Muslims in BSP’s Dalit equation

April 26, 2023 8:43 am

Mayawati’s move to nominate 11 Muslims of 17 mayoral candidates while not fielding a single Brahmin signal that following BSP’s repeated poll routs she is rejigging her social math

Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll: SAD-BSP names sitting MLA Dr Sukhwinder Sukhi as its candidate

April 12, 2023 12:19 am

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal announced the name of Dr Sukhi, who is a two-time MLA from the reserved Banga assembly seat in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district, as nominee for the Jalandhar bypoll.

Keeping BJP in crosshairs in UP for 2024, SP, BSP, Congress slug it out to corner Dalit-Muslim base

April 08, 2023 8:13 pm

To connect with Dalits, Akhilesh Yadav-led SP has started making the pitch that the social justice agenda of Ram Manohar Lohia and Kanshi Ram was the same, thereby urging them to rally round the party

In UP outreach with pamphlets, Congress flags BJP rise in bid to wean Muslims from SP, BSP

April 06, 2023 12:37 am

The grand old party is making the pitch to minority community in UP that 'it will not be SP or BSP but Congress which can act as an alternative to BJP at the national level'

Rahul Gandhi disqualification: Mayawati speaks up, but questions both Cong, BJP for 'politics of selfishness'

March 26, 2023 7:27 am

JD(U) says "haste" with which action taken shows Modi govt "role"; Prashant Kishor says BJP could have shown "a bigger heart"

It's not BJP. In Uttar Pradesh, SP and BSP busy attacking each other with eye on 2024

March 21, 2023 5:34 am

Hoping to woo Muslims and other floating voters who are seeking an alternative to BJP, both are trying to project the other as acting in collusion with the ruling party

SAD-BSP’s week-long programme from March 17 to highlight ‘failure of AAP govt’

March 14, 2023 8:18 am