Mayawati On Upa Government

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  Mayawati Stumps Congress As Opposition Looks To Corner BJP On Fuel Prices

  BSP president Mayawati's remarks holding the previous UPA government and the BJP equally responsible for the steep hike in fuel prices has caught Congress completely by surprise. Congress leaders now feel Mayawati's comments will raise a question mark on attempts at striking an opposition unity ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

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  PM Modi Government 'Disappointing', Bad Days for People: Mayawati

  Charging Narendra Modi government with following UPA's footsteps, BSP surpemo Mayawati today said one year of NDA rule was "disappointing" as people experienced "bad days".

• Opinion: Mulayam, Akhilesh And UP's Descent Into Chaos

  Reflecting on Uttar Pradesh (UP), it is tempting to borrow the title of Ahmed Rashid's 2008 book "Descent into Chaos". A murder a day, an egregious crime a week, BJP politicians being picked out and killed, policemen targeted and murdered by criminals with astonishing brazenness - UP has become a byword for lawlessness. It was not as if India's mos...

• 'No window for reconciliation. It has grills': DMK

  DMK spokesperson TKS Elangovan said that the DMK has been freed of coalition dharma and that "there is no window for reconsideration. It has grills," as five ministers are set to submit their resignations to the Prime Minister today. Meanwhile, Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that the government will push for amendments to the US-sponsored ...

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  DMK quits government: See the math

  The UPA's southern ally, the DMK, today pulled out of the Congress-led UPA coalition at the Centre in protest against the government's position on a US-backed United Nations resolution on alleged war crimes carried out during Sri Lanka's civil war. Party chief M Karunanidhi announced that his party will also not provide external support to the gove...

• FDI in retail: Government wins vote in Lok Sabha with help from Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mayawati

  The Manmohan Singh government has won the vote on Foreign Direct Investment or FDI in multi-brand retail in the Lok Sabha. In division, 471 votes were cast, 253 MPs voted against the BJP motion challenging the government's policy decision and 218 voted for it. The BSP and Samajwadi Party, which provide external support to the government, helped it ...

• FDI in retail: BSP likely to vote for government, say sources

  Will Mayawati bail the UPA government out on FDI in multi-brand retail in the Rajya Sabha? Sources in her party say the BSP's 15 MPs could vote in favour of FDI in the Upper House, where the government is in a minority and is scrambling for numbers. While the BSP, sources say, is still wary of how FDI will affect small retailers and farmers, politi...

• FDI in retail debate: Roll back FDI or you will be rolled back, JD(U) warns Government

  How will Mulayam Singh Yadav vote this evening on the BJP's motion opposing the government's decision to allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail? The Samajwadi Party chief argued against the government's policy in the Lok Sabha yesterday and the party says it will either vote FDI in retail or abstain. The government's floo...

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  FDI in retail not good for nation, says Mulayam Singh Yadav; PM changed his stand, says BJP

  FDI in retail debate: All eyes are on Mulayam Singh Yadav, who provides crucial external support to the UPA government, and is speaking now in a debate on Foreign Direct Investment in multi-brand retail in the Lok Sabha.

• FDI: Highlights of the debate in Lok Sabha

  After debating the contentious issue of Foreign Direct Investment or FDI in multi-brand retail for two days, the Lok Sabha voted on the issue this evening, which went in favour of the UPA government after Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party walked out.

• Mayawati explains BSP stand on support to government: Highlights

  A day after addressing a massive rally in Lucknow, BSP chief Mayawati met her national executive meeting to decide on her to support to the UPA 2. Mayawati, whose party has 21 MPs in Lok Sabha is giving outside support to the government along with Samajwadi Party's 22 MPs. On the issue of FDI in multi-brand retail, Mayawati left the door open sayi...

• BSP to decide tomorrow on continuing support to government: Mayawati

  Attacking the UPA government on several fronts, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Tuesday said that her party will take a call on Wednesday on whether to continue its outside support to the Centre.

• Post-Mamata Banerjee, government says it will focus on less-controversial reforms

  Tonight at 8, the PM will explain on television the economic measures for which he has staked his government, which is now in a minority. Sources say he will point out that the reforms are crucial to jumpstart the economy and to create employment. "Lots of distortion is going on...some misinformation campaign is going on," said V Narayanasamy, Mi...

• Mamata Banerjee out, but we have the numbers, says UPA after Mulayam Singh Yadav bail-out

  Mamata Banerjee's ministers will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh around 4 pm today to resign from his government over the new reforms he cleared last week. They will then head to Rashtrapati Bhawan where they will formally withdraw their letter of support to the ruling UPA coalition in which Ms Banerjee's Trinamool Congress was the second-larges...

• Mayawati helps government, her party to skip bandh

  Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has said it will not participate in the nation-wide strike called by opposition parties on Thursday to protest the government's reform measures announced last week.