With the news of their regrouping under the name of “Popular Front of India” already out, activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India are now planning a new front for themselves in northern India.

The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party has swept the panchayat chiefs’ elections by winning 55 seats — 23 of them unopposed — while the Samajwadi Party trailed behind with 10 seats.

Mr Mohammed Azam Khan on Saturday made a grand comeback into the Samajwadi Party with a couplet, “Kabhi khushi se khushi ki taraf nahin dekha/tumhare baad kisi ki taraf nahin dekha” and won a thundero

After the Bihar debacle, a nervous Congress has now decided to “pull back a little” in Uttar Pradesh, particularly, when it comes to Mr Rahul Gandhi.

UP chief minister Mayawati seems to have slipped into poll mode, a year and a half before elections in Uttar Pradesh are due.
Highly-placed sources claim that Uttar Pradesh could be heading towards an early election since the chief minister has already put the government and the party into a fast forward mode.

After Mohammed Azam Khan, the Samajwadi Party has started making renewed efforts to brink back all those old timers who had left the party because of either Mr Amar Singh or Mr Kalyan Singh.

UP chief minister Mayawati has lost no time in returning the fire.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday mounted a scathing attack on the Mayawati government when she said that corruption in Uttar Pradesh was from “top to bottom”.

He has the will and enthusiasm of a teenager and at the age of 64, he has returned to college to study law.

The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday retained the Nidhauli Kalan and Lakhimpur seats for which byelections were held on November 20.