Mayawati to launch campaign from Kerala

October 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will soon come up with a chargesheet against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in a campaign against the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government. The chargesheet will expose the misdeeds and corrupt practices committed by Mayawati and her government.

September 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has ridiculed Congress party's austerity drive, terming it as a ploy to steer attention away from the steep price rise. Addressing a mass rally here on Thursday, Mayawati hit out at the Congress party, calling its austerity drive "a drama." "Because of the wrong doings by the Congress government at the centre, the prices are rising due to which poor people across the country are suffering.

June 19th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati clarified that protest demonstrations her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had organised across Uttar Pradesh Friday were not connected with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's birthday. We selected June 19 to launch an awareness campaign about the casteist approach of opposition parties and to attack the central government for its anti-Dalit policies but that had nothing to do with Rahul Gandhis birthday, which I am told also falls today," she told a rally here.

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.

April 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Maneka Gandhi, saying she should have brought up her son Varun better rather than defending him. Varun Gandhi is in jail, facing a charge of delivering campaign speeches vilifying Muslims.

April 1st, 2009 SHIMLA - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati would start her party's Lok Sabha election campaign in Himachal Pradesh with a rally at Una town Thursday. The rally at Una, 127 km from the state capital, would mark the start of the BSP's election campaign in the hill state, BSP Shimla district president K.C.

March 29th, 2009 PATNA - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati kicked off her party's election campaign in Bihar Sunday. 'Please bring BSP to power at the centre to serve all, particularly the poor and weaker sections of the society,' Mayawati said in her address at a public meeting in Bhagalpur town, about 200 km from here.

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 22nd, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday promised reservation to Dalit Christians and upper caste poor as she launched her poll campaign from here. Mayawati flew to the Kerala capital to kick off her nationwide 52-day poll campaign, vowing to clamp down on terrorism and Maoist violence in the country.

March 21st, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will fly down to Kerala to launch her nationwide 52-day-long poll campaign from Thiruvananthapuram Saturday. 'Kerala was picked as my first destination simply because I was keen to kick start the campaign from a state where our party was still in a nascent stage,' Mayawati said at a press conference here Friday.

March 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati released a list of candidates for 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. She also announced that the BSP's nationwide campaign would start from Saturday.

March 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - With three private helicopters at her disposal, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will hit the campaign trail Sunday to rally voters across the country for her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) that plans to contest at least 400 Lok Sabha seats in the coming election. Seen by her BSP as the only crowd puller, who does not need the additional props of film stars or celebrities, Mayawati will set herself a punishing pace as she spins across the country for the five-phase elections that begin April 16 and go on till May 13.

March 15th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday said that her party would contest alone in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. "In all the states we will contest the election on our own and we will not tie up with any other political party," Mayawati said on the sidelines of a press conference here.

March 4th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will arrive here Thursday to kick off the party's campaign in the coming Lok Sabha poll, by taking part in the public meeting to conclude the state-wide march of Ramesh Chennithala, head of the Kerala unit of the Congress. Speaking to IANS, Chennithala said Rahul Gandhi's visit 'has come as a shot in the arm for us'.

January 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The Congress Sunday announced the launch of three-phase 'save Kerala campaign' targeting the Left Front's 'poor governance' in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections due in April-May. The first phase of the campaign would begin with a series of seminars and lectures by experts in various parts of the state, state Congress president Ramesh Chennithala told reporters here.