Party leaders, workers should visit Dalits’ houses: Mulayam

October 1st, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress MPs, legislators and other office bearers in Uttar Pradesh have got instructions from the 'high command' to spend Gandhi Jayanti with the Dalits in their constituencies and native places, a party official said Thursday. "I am in my native place in Rudrapur village of Devariya district.

July 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav Wednesday said his party's decision to support the Congress-led United Progress Alliance (UPA) government in 2008 was "a blunder" and those who supported the Congress have been "betrayed". "We feel that our decision to support you last year was a blunder," Mulayam said while concluding his Lok Sabha speech on demands for the grants for the home ministry.

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.

May 24th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Samajwadi Party Sunday expelled Azam Khan, one of the party founders and its Muslim face, from its primary membership for "indiscipline and anti-party activities", party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said. The move comes more than a week after Khan himself resigned as general secretary and parliamentary board member.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party (SP) general secretary Amar Singh Thursday said that he will never leave the side of party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. 'Main jeevan bhar Mulayam Singh ko nahin choroonga (I will not leave Mulayam Singh in my lifetime),' Amar Singh told reporters here, a day after the five-phase Lok Sabha elections came to a close.

May 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh said Thursday that that he will never desert party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. 'Main jeevan bhar Mulayam Singh ko nahin choroonga (I will not leave Mulayam Singh in my lifetime),' Amar Singh told reporters here.

April 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati Monday charged rival Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav with misusing the state's development funds, saying that as many as 1,000 villages could have been developed with the amount. 'The money spent by Mulayam Singh for giving a facelift to (his native village) Saifai alone could have brought development in 1,000 villages of the state,' Mayawati said at an election rally in Etawah district.

April 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Sunday conveyed its 'strong disapproval' of the unsavoury remarks by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in his election speech targetting Mainpuri District Magistrate Ministhy Dileep. 'The Election Commission conveys its strong disapproval of the manner in which Mulayam Singh Yadav made his speech at Mainpuri on March 23 and advises him to be more cautious in future,' the poll panel said in a statement here.

March 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Monday issued notice to Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for his reportedly threatening remarks against the Mainpuri district magistrate. 'The Commission considers such threats as obstacle in the conduct of free and fair elections, as such actions affect the morale of the district election machinery involved in the conduct of elections,' it said in a statement 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.

March 18th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Putting the ball in Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's court Tuesday, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav said his party was 'still ready' to hold talks on seat sharing ahead of the general elections. 'We are still ready to have talks with the Congress party.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW - As the Election Commission slapped a notice on Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav for violating the Model Code of Conduct, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has also rapped Mulayam. The Congress, however, has played soft with its key ally.

February 7th, 2009 BHOPAL - Miffed over the growing proximity of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to rebel Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kalyan Singh, over two dozen Samajwadi activists quit the party in Madhya Pradesh Sunday. The resignations come a day after former state president Narayan Tripathi resigned from the party's primary membership, saying the party's secular credentials have been put at stake with Mulayam Singh getting closer to Kalyan Singh who was involved in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992.

February 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rehman Burke Thursday said Muslims would never pardon party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav for his growing bonhomie with rebel Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh, who was Uttar Pradesh chief minister when the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was razed in 1992. Burke, Lok Sabha member from Moradabad, said several other prominent Muslim leaders in the Samajwadi Party felt the same way.

January 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Ram Vilas Paswan Tuesday charged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of not being serious about fighting for the rights of Dalits and the downtrodden. 'Atrocities against Dalits in Uttar Pradesh are on the rise.