Samajwadi Party Symbol

His becoming a minister wasn't unexpected but a symbol of faith reposed by the party in a dedicated worker and a "slap" on the faces of the opposition Samajwadi Party and Congress, said Uttar Pradesh lone Muslim minister Danish Azad Ansari on Friday.

Union Minister Anupriya Patel on Monday hit out at her elder sister Pallavi Patel, asking why she chose to contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on the Samajwadi Party symbol if she was committed to their father's ideals.

Days after a court convicted 49 people for the Ahmedabad serial blasts, PM Narendra Modi said he had vowed to punish the perpetrators even if they took refuge in "paatal"

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has launched a perfume with the Samajwadi Party's election symbol on it. Called "Samajwadi Sugandh" or "Attar", a Samajwadi legislator who also runs a perfume business crafted it in Kannauj district.

Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has allotted "key" (chaabi) as the election symbol to the Shivpal Yadav's Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia (PSPL) on Monday.

After a BJP leader's controversial comments describing the Taj Mahal has a "blot on Indian culture", Samajwadi Party lawmaker Azam Khan said today, "Why only Taj Mahal, Parliament and Rashtrapati Bhavan are also symbols of slavery and should be demolished."

Gopal Dada, the village barber, is lying on a charpai, lulled horizontal by forces other than the overpowering sun. "I voted for the BJP and Modi. Not Hema Malini," he says about the actor-politician who represents the area in parliament. An obligatory effort at trying to stand up is quickly shelved. "This time around, it will not be BJP. The Jats,...

The Congress has become "a sinking boat" and bicycle, the poll symbol of the Samajwadi Party, has got "punctured", senior BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan claimed on Satruday.

Khazanchi can't speak, can barely smile, and is learning how to hold his head steady. He is the star of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's campaign. In rallies across the state ahead of elections from Saturday, Akhilesh Yadav makes it a point to talk about Khazanchi, who was born two months ago, in a bank queue after Prime Minister Naren...

It was last weekend that Prateek Yadav flashed his blue Lamborghini in the streets of Lucknow, appropriating some of the media attention that was fixed on the epic fight for power between his father, Mulayam Singh, and step-brother, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. The two politicians were then wrestling for rights to use their Samajwadi Party name a...

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav embarked this morning on a peace-keeping mission to the home of his father, Mulayam Singh, over whom he has scored rights to use their Samajwadi Party's name and symbol of the cycle.

After Akhilesh Yadav was recognised as the leader of the Samajwadi Party and awarded the rights to use the party name and symbol (a cycle), he rushed over from his home to see his father, who lives next door, "to seek his blessing." After the visit, he tweeted a photo of his father and him seated across each other in animated discussion on cream so...

In the midst of a major winning streak in the fight for power with his father, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav told NDTV today that "No victory which sees my father put down is a matter of happiness... but this fight was necessary."

Akhilesh Yadav, having set aside his family drama, is moving on to the next order of business ahead of the election: stapling together the alliance that he believes will help him counter rivals Mayawati and the BJP in Uttar Pradesh which begins voting next month. A deal with the Congress will be announced "in a day or two," he told NDTV today. The ...

What next for Mulayam Singh Yadav, the 77-year-old founder of the Samajwadi Party, is the most asked question since his son Akhilesh Yadav was granted the "cycle" symbol and was recognised as the leader of the party by the Election Commission this evening. Cries of 'Jai Akhilesh' filled the air as workers celebrated outside the party's Lucknow offi...

His becoming a minister wasn't unexpected but a symbol of faith reposed by the party in a dedicated worker and a "slap" on the faces of the opposition Samajwadi Party and Congress, said Uttar Pradesh lone Muslim minister Danish Azad Ansari on Friday.

Union Minister Anupriya Patel on Monday hit out at her elder sister Pallavi Patel, asking why she chose to contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on the Samajwadi Party symbol if she was committed to their father's ideals.

Days after a court convicted 49 people for the Ahmedabad serial blasts, PM Narendra Modi said he had vowed to punish the perpetrators even if they took refuge in "paatal"

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has launched a perfume with the Samajwadi Party's election symbol on it. Called "Samajwadi Sugandh" or "Attar", a Samajwadi legislator who also runs a perfume business crafted it in Kannauj district.

Ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has allotted "key" (chaabi) as the election symbol to the Shivpal Yadav's Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia (PSPL) on Monday.

After a BJP leader's controversial comments describing the Taj Mahal has a "blot on Indian culture", Samajwadi Party lawmaker Azam Khan said today, "Why only Taj Mahal, Parliament and Rashtrapati Bhavan are also symbols of slavery and should be demolished."

Gopal Dada, the village barber, is lying on a charpai, lulled horizontal by forces other than the overpowering sun. "I voted for the BJP and Modi. Not Hema Malini," he says about the actor-politician who represents the area in parliament. An obligatory effort at trying to stand up is quickly shelved. "This time around, it will not be BJP. The Jats,...

The Congress has become "a sinking boat" and bicycle, the poll symbol of the Samajwadi Party, has got "punctured", senior BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan claimed on Satruday.

Khazanchi can't speak, can barely smile, and is learning how to hold his head steady. He is the star of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's campaign. In rallies across the state ahead of elections from Saturday, Akhilesh Yadav makes it a point to talk about Khazanchi, who was born two months ago, in a bank queue after Prime Minister Naren...

It was last weekend that Prateek Yadav flashed his blue Lamborghini in the streets of Lucknow, appropriating some of the media attention that was fixed on the epic fight for power between his father, Mulayam Singh, and step-brother, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. The two politicians were then wrestling for rights to use their Samajwadi Party name a...

Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav embarked this morning on a peace-keeping mission to the home of his father, Mulayam Singh, over whom he has scored rights to use their Samajwadi Party's name and symbol of the cycle.

After Akhilesh Yadav was recognised as the leader of the Samajwadi Party and awarded the rights to use the party name and symbol (a cycle), he rushed over from his home to see his father, who lives next door, "to seek his blessing." After the visit, he tweeted a photo of his father and him seated across each other in animated discussion on cream so...

In the midst of a major winning streak in the fight for power with his father, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav told NDTV today that "No victory which sees my father put down is a matter of happiness... but this fight was necessary."

Akhilesh Yadav, having set aside his family drama, is moving on to the next order of business ahead of the election: stapling together the alliance that he believes will help him counter rivals Mayawati and the BJP in Uttar Pradesh which begins voting next month. A deal with the Congress will be announced "in a day or two," he told NDTV today. The ...

What next for Mulayam Singh Yadav, the 77-year-old founder of the Samajwadi Party, is the most asked question since his son Akhilesh Yadav was granted the "cycle" symbol and was recognised as the leader of the party by the Election Commission this evening. Cries of 'Jai Akhilesh' filled the air as workers celebrated outside the party's Lucknow offi...