UP chief minister Mayawati 0n Thursday accused the Congress and other Opposition parties of attempting to disturb law and order by spreading rumours on land acquisition and dubbed Rahul Gandhi's dharna in Greater Noida as "mean theatrics".

Undertaking a fast in support of agitating farmers in western UP, BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Thursday said Chief Minister Mayawati should step down and the state government stop acquiring land until

Congress leaders and workers were on Thursday baton-charged and detained by UP police during a statewide protest by the party against the arrest of Rahul Gandhi even as chief minister Mayawati slammed the Opposition for attempting to disrupt law and order in Greater Noida hit by violence over land acquisition.

Congress on Thursday attacked Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati for dubbing Rahul Gandhi's dharna in Greater Noida as "mean theatrics", saying she was acting out of "frustration".

Squarely blaming Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati for the farmer-police clashes in greater Noida, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said here on Monday that his party would continue to fight for farmers' rights.

BSP MLA Shekhar Tiwari and nine others were on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a sessions court here for murdering PWD engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta after he refused to pay donations for chief minister Mayawati's birthday celebrations in 2008.

Amid Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati’s demand for inclusion of a Dalit in the Lokpal Bill drafting committee, justice Santosh Hegde said if someone from the community should be included in the panel, then it should be one of the Dalit ministers.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday demanded the inclusion of a Scheduled Caste member on the Lokpal Bill drafting committee.

The chief minister flayed both the Congress-led UPA governmen

Expressing shock at volleyball player Arunima Sinha being thrown out of a train in Bareilly, BJP on Thursday alleged that both railway minister Mamata Banerjee and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati should be held responsible for the incident.

The Mayawati government, late on Thursday night, transferred 12 senior IAS officers, including principal secretaries.

Principal Secretary, family welfare and medical education, Pradeep Shukla, who wa