Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s prized parks and memorials have started losing their VIP status, with the Akhilesh Yadav government drastically cutting down the workforce deployed in these monuments by almost 90 per cent.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s magic may or may not work wonders for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh but the Congress is confident of reaping a rich harvest due to Modi mania in the upcoming Lok Sabh

Fifteen months after he assumed power, UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is now shedding his lenient image and has begun cracking the whip in the party and the government.

The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party are unwilling to enter into any pre-poll alliance with any party in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections.

Dissent over the functioning of the Akhilesh Yadav government is no longer restricted to the Samajwadi MLAs.
Senior-most SP minister Mohammed Azam Khan and a relative of SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav are the latest to attack their own government in Uttar Pradesh.

Finally, it is official. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has called off his proposed visit to Ayodhya on June 20.

The BJP in Uttar Pradesh has identified 42 parliamentary seats on which Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will campaign.

When senior BJP leader Amit Shah arrives in Lucknow on Wednesday, on his first visit as in-charge of UP affairs, he will not have much homework to do.

In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl, who is a state hockey champion and a gold medalist in state school championship, stabbed four boys in Jhansi on Monday over a trivial issue.

Stunned by its humiliating defeat in the recent Handia byelection where the party candidate got merely 2,880 votes, the Congress is now preparing for major changes in the party organisation in Uttar Pradesh.
The party high command, according to sources, is now ready to take some drastic measures related to the party organisation on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections.