Police baton-charge protesting Samajwadi Party workers in Varanasi

July 27th, 2009 PATNA - Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) activists clashed with police, following a baton charge at a party rally here on Monday. Former Union Minister and LJP President RamVilas Paswan had joined the protest alongwith his supporters calling for action over the alleged stripping and assault of a woman by a group of men in Patna.

July 24th, 2009 AJMER - Police resorted to baton-charge following a scuffle with scores of women protesting against water scarcity in Ajmer. The city has been reeling under acute water shortage for the past four days.

July 17th, 2009 BHOPAL - Students of a woman's nursing college in Bhopal were baton charged while they were protesting outside the residence of Jayant Mallya, State Minister of Urban Development, Environment and Water Resources. The students alleged that Mallya's wife Sudha Mallya ran a nursing college, which denied them of basic facilities.

July 15th, 2009 BHOPAL - Police baton charged hundreds of Congress party protesting workers who were trying to lay a siege on the State Legislative Assembly. The protestors blamed the Madhya Pradesh government for being inefficient in fighting crime, corruption, and solving electricity and water woes of the general public.

July 15th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit his parliamentary constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh Friday to meet party workers and others injured in a baton charge during a protest over power shortage Monday night, a party spokesperson said Wednesday. "He (Rahul Gandhi) will be visiting Amethi Friday for a thanksgiving meeting with the party workers, Akhilesh Pratap Singh, spokesperson of Uttar Pradesh Congress, told IANS.

April 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Senior Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Baba Dubey, who was the coordinator of party's Brahmin Bhaichara Committee in the Varanasi division, joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) here on Monday. Dubey, who contested the last Lok Sabha election from Jaunpur, was actively involved in the party's social engineering programme.

March 24th, 2009 VARANASI - With a known Hindu hardliner, a murder accused as well as an influential party rebel in the fray, the electoral battle in this Hindu pilgrim town is getting hotter by the day. Among the most prominent candidates is Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran Murli Manohar Joshi, who has switched from Allahabad to Varanasi this time in search of better prospects.

March 15th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML) Saturday urged the Uttar pradesh Election Commission to probe the alleged role of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Wednesday's communal clashes in Varanasi that claimed two lives. 'Based on the information gathered by our activists, BJP and BSP had a role in provoking riots in Varanasi,' CPI-ML state unit head Sudhakar Yadav told reporters here.

March 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Taking note of TV footage showing Varanasi MP Rajesh Misra of the Congress offering money to people in his constituency, the Election Commission Friday sought a report from the district magistrate. 'No sooner than I came to know that the Varanasi sitting MP was seen distributing notes to local people, I asked the Varanasi DM to get the matter inquired into and submit his report promptly,' Uttar Pradesh Chief Election Officer A.K.

March 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Over a dozen Sunni Muslims were injured in clashes with riot police on Tuesday for taking out a religious procession here. The clash took place after the participants defied an Uttar Pradesh Government ban religious processions.

March 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Wednesday released its first list of 24 candidates from Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections, including its president Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Rahul Gandhi. The list includes some of the rebels of the Samajwadi Party, with which the Congress has been trying to work out a pre-poll alliance in the state.

February 16th, 2009 RANCHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded a judicial probe into the baton charge on party members Feb 12 when leaders like former external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha were injured while holding a protest near the governor's house here. 'We demand a judicial probe into the baton charge on party leaders.

January 14th, 2009 NOIDA - Hundreds of Samajwadi Party workers protested in this Uttar Pradesh district over 'absence of law and order' and demanded the removal of Chief Minister Mayawati, who celebrated her 53rd birthday Thursday. The Samajwadi Party activists gathered at the Shimla Park in Sector-12 shouting slogans against Mayawati.

January 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Samajwadi Party accused the Uttar Pradesh police of using force against its workers who were protesting against the alleged extortion by the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ahead of Chief Minister Mayawati's birthday Thursday. Over 1,000 Samajwadi Party activists were detained across the state by 3 p.m., party officials said in Lucknow.

January 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI - Uttar Pradesh's main opposition Samajwadi Party accused the police of using force against its workers who were protesting against the alleged extortion by Chief Minister Mayawati's followers ahead of her birthday Thursday. Over 1,000 Samajwadi Party activists were detained across the state by 3 p.m., party officials said in Lucknow.