Congress, BJP policies influenced by big houses, brokers: Mayawati

July 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati announced that her party would carry out State wide agitation in Uttar Pradesh on July 22 against the policies of the UPA Government at the centre. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Mayawati criticized the Center's decision to hike the prices of petroleum products.

July 17th, 2009 AMETHI - Accusing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of misusing government funds, Congress Party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Uttar Pradesh has place for only statues and elephants but not for the issues related to development of the state. Addressing Congress workers here, Gandhi said: "Mayawati only has time to erect statues and nothing else.

July 17th, 2009 MORADABAD - Congress MP Mohammad Azharuddin on Friday courted arrest in support of Uttar Pradesh Congress unit chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi. "We are over 150 of us who have courted arrest.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress President Sonia Gandhi expressed regret over the remarks made by UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, but at the same time described the actions of the Uttar Pradesh Government as high handed. Earlier in the day, Mayawati condemned Gandhi for remaining silent on the Joshi incident, and said it was shameful that she had not taken any action against Joshi.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI J - The Congress Party and UPA Government at the center has urged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to avoid settling political and personal scores through the through the nation's courts. However, it said the issue between UP Congress Committee Chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Mayawati is a matter both had to settle themselves.

May 21st, 2009 LUCKNOW - A lawyer Thursday moved an application before a court in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district seeking action against state Chief Minister Mayawati for her alleged derogatory utterances against P.L. Punia, a former bureaucrat and now a Congress MP from the Barabanki parliamentary seat.

May 19th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Further strengthening the stability to the new United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday said that her party would give outside support to the Congress-led alliance without any condition. Mayawati further said that her party has agreed to provide outside support of all 21 MPs to the UPA Government without any condition.

May 4th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati here Monday hit out at Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, saying that by merely sleeping in the house of Dalits or having food with them, their poverty would not be removed. Hitting out at the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and their allies, Mayawati at a rally in here said the Congress ruled the country for 40 of the 61 years since independence and yet did nothing for the country.

April 22nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh has been booked for threatening Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati by misusing CBI against her. The case has been booked for violating the model code of conduct against Singh late on Tuesday night on the directions of the district administration, said Hardoi sources.

April 21st, 2009 KOLKATA - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday urged the people to vote for her party to form a BSP Government at the Centre. "The BSP is contesting in almost every seat.

March 31st, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati Tuesday said Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani should have brought back the black money of his own party leaders stashed in various banks abroad during his party's rule.

March 30th, 2009 JAMMU - The Bahujan Samaj Party's (BSP) blue flags fluttered here in Jammu and Kashmir Monday as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati campaigned for her party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Addressing an election rally, Mayawati criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as well as the Congress saying these parties were 'fooling the people'.

March 24th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday urged people to vote out parties like the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "Vote out the Congress and the BJP for the betterment of your lives," Mayawati said while addressing a public meeting at the Nizam College Grounds here.

March 23rd, 2009 DEORIA - The first election rally of Bahujan Samaj Party chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in this remote district in the eastern corner of the state was a big draw. Mayawati, who launched her party's nationwide campaign from Thiruvananthapuram Saturday, was welcomed by tumultuous crowds, who converged at the rally on the open fields at Hata Road on the outskirts of this town.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid speculation that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati would join the Third Front if she was named its prime ministerial candidate, the Left parties Saturday said the alliance would chose its leader for the top job only after the elections. 'We will choose the prime minister after the general elections,' said Communist Party of India (CPI) national deputy general secretary Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy.