Weary of trying to find a foothold in various political parties, retired IAS officers in Uttar Pradesh are now planning to launch their own political parties.

Yet another BSP minister in Uttar Pradesh is caught in the vortex of controversy after a minor rape victim has alleged that she was pressurised by the minister’s nephew to compromise with the accused.

Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, the vice-chancellor of Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband, has said that development was palpable in Gujarat.
The cleric, however, said that this did not mean that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi could be given a clean chit on the victimisation of Muslims during the Godhra riots.

In a move that could upset calculations for the next Assembly elections, UP chief minister Mayawati s panning to announce reservation for dalit Muslims and most backward Muslims.

There is finally some good news for UP chief minister Mayawati.
A poll survey conducted this month puts her ahead of her political rivals and shows that she is all set to become chief minister of UP for the second consecutive term. A voters’ attitude survey conducted by politicsparty.com in all the 403 Assembly segments between January 21 and 23, show that Ms Mayawati remains a frontrunner in state politics and could win 240 seats of the total of 403 seats in the next Assembly elections.

Former SP leader Amar Singh’s Lok Manch has hit a rough patch.
His fledgling political outfit that was formed in June last year, now shows signs of disintegrating.
About four dozen Lok Manch activists returned to the parent Samajwadi Party on Sunday. Prominent among them included Anil Rajbhar, state president of Lok Manch, A

Even before the dust over the Banda rape case has settled down, the Mayawati government is all set to face another embarrassing situation over a similar case.

Dalit officers in Uttar Pradesh are feeling increasingly alienated in the Mayawati government and some of them are even angry with their “own” government.
The anger of dalit officers has welled up to such an extent that about a dozen of them, some retired, met at a private dinner two days ago and discussed the issue threadbare.

The Union Cabinet reshuffle may have been designed to create an impact in Uttar Pradesh where Assembly elections are due next year, but the changes are unlikely to change the dwindling fortunes of the party in the state.

Congressmen in Uttar Pradesh are a worried lot. Those wanting to contest the next Assembly elections are even more upset.
“The spiralling prices and the recent petrol hike could spell disaster or the Congress in the UP Assembly elections that are exactly a year away. The common man is