Mayawati Corruption

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday criticized the previous governments for using corrupt practices and emptying state government treasuries during their tenures.

Two BSP leaders were garlanded with shoes, faces blackened and paraded outside the party office In Rajasthan on Tuesday by some of the BSP workers who alleged corruption in ticket allocation.

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday carried out searches at 110 locations in 19 states in connection with cases related to corruption, arms smuggling and criminal misconduct, officials said, in a massive crackdown with links to opposition leaders Mayawati and Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit back at the opposition that has launched a concerted attack on him over a host of issues.

Speaking exclusively to NDTV, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, in his first TV interview this election season, said that his party's focus is on "jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs- and the economy." Speaking to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain at a rally in Rajasthan, Mr Gandhi spoke about why he believes the Rafale fighter jet deal is corrupt, his controversial de...

Sensational charges and countercharges of corruption flowed this afternoon and Naseemuddin Siddiqui and Mayawati held back-to back tell-all press conferences. Mr Siddiqui, the leader expelled yesterday by Mayawati, alleged that his expulsion has nothing to do with anti-party activities, but rather his failure to pay Rs 50 crore that the Bahujan Sam...

Flattened by the BJP in this year's Uttar Pradesh elections, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party is in the middle of its worst crisis since 2003, when a section of party legislators had split to help arch rival Mulayam Singh Yadav come to power in the state. On Wednesday, Ms Mayawati expelled one of her closest aides and the party's Muslim face Naseemud...

Addressing his first election rally in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the Samajwadi Party, Congress and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party of corruption and said the UP elections are BJP's fight against 'SCAM'.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned for his party today in Lucknow with a huge rally at a public park named after the wife of Dalit icon Bhim Rao Ambedkar. The ground was built by Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati when she was Chief Minister; her party says she alone has the drawing power to fill it. "I have never seen such a big audience," sa...

Slamming Mayawati for linking the Enforcement Directorate action against her Bahujan Samaj Party to her being a Dalit, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today said her Dalit origin does not give her a "licence" to indulge in corruption. A prominent Dalit face of the ruling BJP-led NDA, Mr Paswan said the former Chief Minister should let the law take ...

Hours after Narendra Modi claimed he is a "fakir, the prime minister's comments drew sharp reactions from the opposition.

A relaxed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav drew laughter often from his audience today as he made multiple digs at "Uncle" Amar Singh and more than a few at "Bua (Aunt)" Mayawati, asserting that his Samajwadi Party is set to make a comeback in Uttar Pradesh where elections will be held in a few months from now. But he said, "I can't say ...

Hitting out at successive BSP and Samajwadi Party governments in Uttar Pradesh over corruption, BJP president Amit Shah alleged on Wednesday, that people of the state were left empty handed while the leaders of the two parties flourished under their respective rule.

Hitting back at BSP chief Mayawati, BJP today alleged corruption and crime associated with her party and ruling Sajamwadi Party are the biggest obstacles to the growth of Uttar Pradesh and claimed people will uproot them by handing over the state's reins to it in the 2017 Assembly elections.

Virtually sounding the bugle for the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, BSP supremo Mayawati today attacked SP and BJP, claiming they have "failed" on all fronts, and promised a society free of fear and corruption if she is voted to power.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday criticized the previous governments for using corrupt practices and emptying state government treasuries during their tenures.

Two BSP leaders were garlanded with shoes, faces blackened and paraded outside the party office In Rajasthan on Tuesday by some of the BSP workers who alleged corruption in ticket allocation.

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday carried out searches at 110 locations in 19 states in connection with cases related to corruption, arms smuggling and criminal misconduct, officials said, in a massive crackdown with links to opposition leaders Mayawati and Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hit back at the opposition that has launched a concerted attack on him over a host of issues.

Speaking exclusively to NDTV, Congress President Rahul Gandhi, in his first TV interview this election season, said that his party's focus is on "jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs- and the economy." Speaking to NDTV's Sreenivasan Jain at a rally in Rajasthan, Mr Gandhi spoke about why he believes the Rafale fighter jet deal is corrupt, his controversial de...

Sensational charges and countercharges of corruption flowed this afternoon and Naseemuddin Siddiqui and Mayawati held back-to back tell-all press conferences. Mr Siddiqui, the leader expelled yesterday by Mayawati, alleged that his expulsion has nothing to do with anti-party activities, but rather his failure to pay Rs 50 crore that the Bahujan Sam...

Flattened by the BJP in this year's Uttar Pradesh elections, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party is in the middle of its worst crisis since 2003, when a section of party legislators had split to help arch rival Mulayam Singh Yadav come to power in the state. On Wednesday, Ms Mayawati expelled one of her closest aides and the party's Muslim face Naseemud...

Addressing his first election rally in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused the Samajwadi Party, Congress and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party of corruption and said the UP elections are BJP's fight against 'SCAM'.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned for his party today in Lucknow with a huge rally at a public park named after the wife of Dalit icon Bhim Rao Ambedkar. The ground was built by Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati when she was Chief Minister; her party says she alone has the drawing power to fill it. "I have never seen such a big audience," sa...

Slamming Mayawati for linking the Enforcement Directorate action against her Bahujan Samaj Party to her being a Dalit, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today said her Dalit origin does not give her a "licence" to indulge in corruption. A prominent Dalit face of the ruling BJP-led NDA, Mr Paswan said the former Chief Minister should let the law take ...

Hours after Narendra Modi claimed he is a "fakir, the prime minister's comments drew sharp reactions from the opposition.

A relaxed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav drew laughter often from his audience today as he made multiple digs at "Uncle" Amar Singh and more than a few at "Bua (Aunt)" Mayawati, asserting that his Samajwadi Party is set to make a comeback in Uttar Pradesh where elections will be held in a few months from now. But he said, "I can't say ...

Hitting out at successive BSP and Samajwadi Party governments in Uttar Pradesh over corruption, BJP president Amit Shah alleged on Wednesday, that people of the state were left empty handed while the leaders of the two parties flourished under their respective rule.

Hitting back at BSP chief Mayawati, BJP today alleged corruption and crime associated with her party and ruling Sajamwadi Party are the biggest obstacles to the growth of Uttar Pradesh and claimed people will uproot them by handing over the state's reins to it in the 2017 Assembly elections.

Virtually sounding the bugle for the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, BSP supremo Mayawati today attacked SP and BJP, claiming they have "failed" on all fronts, and promised a society free of fear and corruption if she is voted to power.