Mayawati Sacks Ministers

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who has a thin lead in the assembly after a revolt by his sacked deputy Sachin Pilot, will "be taught a lesson", warned Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati today, declaring she would go all the way to the Supreme Court to fight six MLAs of her party joining the Congress last year.

In Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's struggle to retain his narrow majority after a rebellion by his sacked deputy Sachin Pilot, a new case is in court. Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which lost all six Rajasthan MLAs to the Congress last year, has approached the High Court.

BSP supremo Mayawati today sacked her close aide Jai Prakash Singh from the party for his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

A top Mayawati party leader was sacked on Tuesday, just hours after he "predicted" that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is not prime minister material and "can never succeed in politics as he looks more like his mother, a foreigner".

Demanding the immediate sacking of Union minister, Gen VK Singh for his dog remark on the Dalit killings in Faridabad, Bahujan Samaj Party chief, Mayawati said that the former Army chief should be sent to jail for his "petty, mean and low-level mentality".

The BJP took to the streets in many cities today, threatening to carry its protest against Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for his "Hindu terror" comment, to Parliament. The party wants the minister sacked and an apology from UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Two of the Congress' important partners too say Mr Shinde ...

The death of yet another key accused in Uttar Pradesh's multi-crore health scam has sparked off a political blame-game. After Chief Minister Mayawati yesterday blamed the National Rural Health Mission swindle as part of a larger political controversy, the Congress has hit back, asking her why she shunted out ministers from her government if there w...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday sacked Small-Scale Industry minister Chadradeo Ram Yadav who was indicted by the state Lokayukta.

Taking on BJP over the induction of tainted former BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, Rahul Gandhi today claimed he wanted to join Congress after being sacked by Chief Minister Mayawati but the party closed the doors on him.

Uttar Pradesh is in election mode, which means it's a cruel world out there for politicians. Mayawati, who is hoping to be re-elected as Chief Minister, is proving to be a tough boss to please. In the last two months, she has sacked 16 ministers. And more than 50 of her MLAs have not been given tickets for the elections.

In yet another clean-up act ahead of the Assembly elections in 2012, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati sacked four more ministers, who are facing corruption charges and have public complaints against them. The total number of ministers who have been sacked by Mayawati after the election dates were announced by the Election Commission has now re...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati sacked four ministers on Sunday. In a decision ratified by state Governor BL Joshi - Rakesh Dhar Tripathi, Minister for Higher Education, Rajpal Tyagi the Agriculture R and D minister, Avdhesh Kumar Verma the Minister for Backward Welfare and Hari Om, Minister for Home guards were dropped from the UP cabinet.

Mayawati, often accused of running one of the most corrupt governments in the country, has fired two ministers today. The Lokayukta or ombudsman of Uttar Pradesh had recommended their dismissal. The ministers who have been sacked are Rangnath Mishra, who was handling Secondary Education, and Badshah Singh.

A government school teacher in Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh was in for a rude shock when she was sacked after she approached Mayawati with a personal complaint during the Chief Minister's visit to her school. Her fault, authorities say, is "breaking protocol." On February 6, when Mayawati was inspecting a primary school in Naulik village in...

UP Chief Minister Mayawati has sacked chairpersons, members of state corporations after her party's poor showing in the polls.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who has a thin lead in the assembly after a revolt by his sacked deputy Sachin Pilot, will "be taught a lesson", warned Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati today, declaring she would go all the way to the Supreme Court to fight six MLAs of her party joining the Congress last year.

In Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's struggle to retain his narrow majority after a rebellion by his sacked deputy Sachin Pilot, a new case is in court. Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which lost all six Rajasthan MLAs to the Congress last year, has approached the High Court.

BSP supremo Mayawati today sacked her close aide Jai Prakash Singh from the party for his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.

A top Mayawati party leader was sacked on Tuesday, just hours after he "predicted" that Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is not prime minister material and "can never succeed in politics as he looks more like his mother, a foreigner".

Demanding the immediate sacking of Union minister, Gen VK Singh for his dog remark on the Dalit killings in Faridabad, Bahujan Samaj Party chief, Mayawati said that the former Army chief should be sent to jail for his "petty, mean and low-level mentality".

The BJP took to the streets in many cities today, threatening to carry its protest against Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde for his "Hindu terror" comment, to Parliament. The party wants the minister sacked and an apology from UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Two of the Congress' important partners too say Mr Shinde ...

The death of yet another key accused in Uttar Pradesh's multi-crore health scam has sparked off a political blame-game. After Chief Minister Mayawati yesterday blamed the National Rural Health Mission swindle as part of a larger political controversy, the Congress has hit back, asking her why she shunted out ministers from her government if there w...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Wednesday sacked Small-Scale Industry minister Chadradeo Ram Yadav who was indicted by the state Lokayukta.

Taking on BJP over the induction of tainted former BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, Rahul Gandhi today claimed he wanted to join Congress after being sacked by Chief Minister Mayawati but the party closed the doors on him.

Uttar Pradesh is in election mode, which means it's a cruel world out there for politicians. Mayawati, who is hoping to be re-elected as Chief Minister, is proving to be a tough boss to please. In the last two months, she has sacked 16 ministers. And more than 50 of her MLAs have not been given tickets for the elections.

In yet another clean-up act ahead of the Assembly elections in 2012, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati sacked four more ministers, who are facing corruption charges and have public complaints against them. The total number of ministers who have been sacked by Mayawati after the election dates were announced by the Election Commission has now re...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati sacked four ministers on Sunday. In a decision ratified by state Governor BL Joshi - Rakesh Dhar Tripathi, Minister for Higher Education, Rajpal Tyagi the Agriculture R and D minister, Avdhesh Kumar Verma the Minister for Backward Welfare and Hari Om, Minister for Home guards were dropped from the UP cabinet.

Mayawati, often accused of running one of the most corrupt governments in the country, has fired two ministers today. The Lokayukta or ombudsman of Uttar Pradesh had recommended their dismissal. The ministers who have been sacked are Rangnath Mishra, who was handling Secondary Education, and Badshah Singh.

A government school teacher in Auraiya district of Uttar Pradesh was in for a rude shock when she was sacked after she approached Mayawati with a personal complaint during the Chief Minister's visit to her school. Her fault, authorities say, is "breaking protocol." On February 6, when Mayawati was inspecting a primary school in Naulik village in...

UP Chief Minister Mayawati has sacked chairpersons, members of state corporations after her party's poor showing in the polls.