The blamegame has begun in right earnest between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party over Muslim votes in Uttar Pradesh.

The employment may be seasonal but the money is good. Besides, there are always bigger opportunities waiting in the not-so-distant future.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday mounted a blistering attack on the BJP on the issue of corruption and said that the party that claimed to fight corruption was now courting the man who is, undoubt

The BJP, which has been receiving flak over the induction of ex-BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, is all set to take another beating when it welcomes some more “tainted” politicians next week.

A whole new generation of politicians is set to emerge in Uttar Pradesh in the coming Assembly elections, giving a new face to state politics.

Political armies gearing up for the big battle next month will soon become “headless” because almost all state presidents of major political parties are themselves contesting elections.

The season of changing loyalties has begun in Uttar Pradesh. Leaders, who publicly vowed allegiance to one party, are now happily doing the same in another party.

A young mother went to fetch her seven-year-old son from school and asked him how he had spent the `20 that she had given him in the morning. The kid wondered and when he could not recollect, he simply retorted, “Haathi kha gaya.”

With elections just one month away, the BJP seems to have upset its two major star campaigners, Shatrughan Sinha and Varun Gandhi.
According to sources, both the star campaigners are upset with the party leadership — particularly over the manner they have been sidelined in party affairs — and have decided not to make themselves “freely available” for campaign in UP.

The Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh now have a problem with the statues of UP chief minister Mayawati and the elephant (BSP symbol) installed in various parks and memorials in Lucknow and Noida.