Congress openly misusing CBI: BSP’s Satish Misra

September 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Friday named a full-fledged university after the mother of her blue-eyed party general secretary Satish Chandra Misra, who has shot to fame as the Bahujan Samaj Party's Brahmin mascot. Named after Misra's mother, late Shakuntala Misra, a homeopathic physician, the university is described as the first of its kind in Asia to be devoted exclusively to the physically challenged.

August 5th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The 60 red-stone elephants installed in the Rs.750 crore Ambedkar Park cum memorial here have nothing in common with the election symbol of Chief Minister Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), party general secretary Satish Chandra Misra said Wednesday. Reacting to an Election Commission notice to BSP, Misra said in a statement: "The elephants installed at the Ambedkar memorial are in a typically traditional welcome position with their trunks raised up in the air, while the elephant in the party symbol has its trunk in the normal posture." Criticising the opposition parties for raising the issue before the poll panel, he argued, "We have introduced a scheme to gift bicycles to young girls.

June 30th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Defending Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati against the Congress' criticism, her confidant and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national general secretary Satish Chandra Misra Tuesday reiterated that the drive to build memorials and install statues of Dalit icons would not affect the state's welfare schemes. "While undertaking the construction of memorials and statues, we are not in any way compromising with the programmes meant for the development of the state or for the upliftment of the poor," Misra said in a release issued by the state information department.

April 30th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is confident that her party will remain ahead of its rivals in the Lok Sabha elections across the state. Speaking to mediapersons after casting her vote for the parliamentary polls at a polling booth in Lucknow Montessori School, Mayawati said: 'My party is doing very well not only here but all across the state.

April 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's non-playing Davis Cup captain S.P Misra says the players were disappointed at Australia's withdrawal from next month's Chennai tie. He feels India's chances of winning the tie were high even with the presence of former World No.

April 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national general sercretary Satish Misra Tuesday justified filing charges against Bharatiya Janata Party leader Varun Gandhi under the National Security Act (NSA) for his hate speeches and criticised both the BJP and the Congress for opposing the move. Reacting to the Supreme Court's view that invoking the deterrent law against Varun Gandhi was disproportionate to his offence, Misra told a press conference here: 'We are going to reiterate our stand more forcefully before the apex court.

April 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Uttar Pradesh government is misusing the funds the central government has provided for development work, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi charged Friday. 'Like the previous Samajwadi Party government, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government too is misusing the central funds,' Naqvi said at a press conference here.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's Davis Cup non-playing captain S.P. Misra is delighted that All India Tennis Association (AITA) has gone along with the players in choosing Chennai as the venue for the Davis Cup tie against Australia from May 8-10.

March 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI -The Congress party Tuesday filed a complaint with the Election Commission against the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, accusing it of misusing state machinery for electoral gains. 'In an effort to ensure victory of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidates a large number of transfers of government officials have already been made.

March 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Thursday sent party national general secretary Satish Chandra Misra to participate in the Third Front rally in Tumkur near Bangalore. Misra, who is not only projected as Mayawati's second-in-command but also as the Brahmin mascot of the Dalit party, was flown to Tumkur in a special aircraft from Lucknow.

March 7th, 2009 KAOHSIUNG - Indian Davis Cup non-playing captain S. P. Misra said India have a 50-50 chance of winning their Asia-Oceania Group I tie against Chinese Taipei after sharing the opening day's singles here Friday.

March 3rd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati Monday took her her own party men to task for the humiliating defeat suffered in the Bhadohi state assembly by-election Sunday. Addressing a closed-door meeting of her party legislators at BSP state headquarters here in the afternoon, Mayawati not only named the 'black sheep' in the party but also warned them of 'consequences over the next three days'.

February 28th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Senior Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister Lalji Tandon was Friday named as the party's nominee for the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat, held by former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee for five successive terms. While a formal announcement to that effect was made by BJP chief Rajnath Singh in New Delhi, top BJP sources confirmed that it was done on Vajpayee's insistence.

February 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Journalist-cum-author-cum-lyricist Neelesh Misra says he was asked to write the script of a film on the life of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, but adds that it hasn't been taken forward. 'I was asked to write the script of such a film, but then nothing was taken forward and I haven't heard from them after that, so right now I'm quite unsure about the whole project,' Misra, who has scripted Sanjay Gupta's much-hyped 'Alibaug', told IANS.

December 30th, 2008 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Shekhar Tiwari, after allegedly beating government engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta to death, was in touch with an Uttar Pradesh minister from Kanpur, a senior intelligence official said here Wednesday. 'Calls made from the MLA's cellphone have confirmed that he had telephonic conversations with the minister,' the official told IANS on condition of anonymity.