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‘Kiske Kanshi Ram?’: UP parties vie for BSP founder’s legacy as 2027 polls loom

March 13, 2026 12:34 pm

Ahead of Kanshi Ram's birth anniversary on March 15, Congress seeks to invoke BSP founder to reclaim lost Dalit support base, SP pushes his ideology through its PDA plank.

Speaking to mediapersons in Lucknow on Sunday over Swami's FIR, the SP chief said, “Sometimes, conflict happens due to differences of views. But will you now go to such an extent that you will get such base allegations made?”

Akhilesh hits out at BJP govt over POCSO FIR against Swami Saraswati: ‘To what extent will you now go now’

February 23, 2026 4:14 am

The special judge of the POCSO court had directed the registration of an FIR against Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and Mukundanand Brahmachari of Sheshnath Ashram, Badrinath Dham, on an application moved by Ashutosh Brahmachari Maharaj and others.

The party hopes to recreate the momentum of its 2012 landslide victory, when it had begun its campaign from the same district.

Tracing 2012 poll victory run, Akhilesh back in Dadri to launch campaign

February 09, 2026 12:39 pm

People from around 140 Assembly constituencies expected to participate in Samajwadi Samanta Bhaichara rally, preparations underway since August

Days after Azamgarh clash, SP MLA says BJP ‘escalated’ tension; party calls it ‘baseless’

June 17, 2025 5:26 am

The incident took place on June 3 after objections were raised when youths from a particular community were seen recording videos and taking photographs from their rooftops of a marriage procession in which women were dancing

As SP X post triggers protest, FIR, Akhilesh says won’t happen again

May 19, 2025 4:18 am

Akhilesh said those statements may seem appropriate at Pathak's personal level, but they cannot be justified in any way "on the scale of dignity and decency

The poster places a photo of half of Akhilesh's face close to a similar cutout of Ambedkar's image.

‘Half Akhilesh, half Ambedkar’: Why an SP poster has BJP, BSP fuming

May 01, 2025 11:41 am

The controversy comes at a time when the SP is trying to reach out to Dalit voters as part of its “PDA strategy” that brought it success in the Lok Sabha polls last year

'BJP had plans to announce PM name': Akhilesh Yadav claims Mahakumbh was 'political event'

April 21, 2025 9:44 am

Calling the Maha Kumbh “a political one,” the Kannauj MP told reporters at Prayagraj, where he had travelled to attend a wedding, “It’s the CM himself who is responsible for the failure of the Maha Kumbh. They attempted to turn it into a BJP event. There were plans to announce the name of the Prime Minister as well. It was not a religious Kumbh, but a political one."