Akhilesh Yadav bats for 25 percent reservation for women

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will on Sunday launch the campaign for his daughter-in-law for the by-election to the Ferozabad Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, where she has been pitted against Bollywood veteran Raj Babbar of the Congress. Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) will reach Ferozabad on Oct 4 to start the campaign for the by-poll, Rajya Sabha MP of Samajwadi Party Kamal Akhter told IANS.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Samajwadi Party Wednesday said it would field Dimple Yadav, daughter-in-law of party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, in the Lok Sabha by-election in Uttar Pradesh's Ferozabad constituency. Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav made this announcement here.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hundreds of women from many parts of the country Monday marched in the capital demanding that parliament pass the bill to reserve 33 percent of legislature seats for women. The march to parliament was organised by the All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA).

June 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India is strengthening its self-help groups to involve women in income generating work to arm them against the impact of economic meltdown, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said. Addressing the plenary session of the third East Asia Gender Equality Ministerial Meeting at Seoul Thursday, Tirath said India is committed to uplift women in every sphere of life.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti Monday wrote to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat urging him to ask the BJP to seek reservation for women from the backward classes in the women's quota bill. Uma Bharti, who formed her breakaway Bharatiya Jan Shakti party, said the BJP should not support the bill in its present form and it should "seek reservation within reservation" for those from the backward classes.

June 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Days after President Pratibha Patil declared the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill in parliament as one of the top priorities of the government, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Monday opposed the bill saying that its passage would invite an agitation. Mulayam Singh, who argued for the provision of reservation for women from the backward classes and minorities in parliament, warned of an agitation if the bill was passed in its present form.

June 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A higher percentage of India's women MPs are postgraduates compared to their male counterparts and has greater chances of winning elections, suggests a new study. As many as 32 percent of the 59 women MPs in the 15th Lok Sabha hold postgraduate and doctoral degrees as against 30 percent of male members in the lower house, it says.

June 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI - Akhilesh Yadav took over as the chief of the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh, son of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, reached the party office in a huge procession.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Adopting an aggressive stand in his opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) chief Sharad Yadav Friday threatened he would "consume poison" in parliament if it was passed in its present form. If the Women's Reservation Bill is passed I will consume poison and die here but not allow the passage of bill," he said in the Lok Sabha.

June 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday appointed his son Akhilesh Yadav as the president of the party's Uttar Pradesh unit. Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said Kannauj MP Akhilesh replaces Mulayam's brother Shivpal Singh Yadav.

June 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Samajwadi Party (SP) Wednesday named party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's son Akhilesh Yadav as its Uttar Pradesh unit president -- apparently taking the cue from the trend set by certain national political parties to entrust greater responsibility to the youth. Mulayam Singh Yadav's cousin and SP national general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, the party's leader in the Rajya Sabha, made the announcement in New Delhi.

May 24th, 2009 FIROZABAD - Newly-elected Lok Sabha member from Firozabad and Kannauj, Akhilesh Yadav, the son of Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, has decided to vacate the Firozabad seat, a party leader said Sunday. However, the measure will have to wait till the Lok Sabha elects a new speaker.

May 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party's (SP) youth wing chief Akhilesh Yadav was trailing in Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj constituency but leading in Firozabad two hours after counting began at 8 a.m. Akhilesh, the son of SP chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, had won from Kannauj in the 2004 elections.

March 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Under the poll panel scanner for his alleged disparaging remarks against the Mainpuri district magistrate, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Friday said he had not made any derogatory comments about the woman IAS officer and his party always believed in equality for women. 'I have not not made any derogatory comment about the district magistrate and the Samajwadi Party has always believed in equality for women and women empowerment,' Yadav told reporters here.

March 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday said he always respected women and also given them proper respect and place in the party. "I have never made any derogatory statement against any woman.