Poll panel ticks off Mulayam for targeting Mainpuri official

May 25th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Keen to play a larger role in national politics after his election as MP, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Monday decided to concentrate his activities in Delhi. Formally announcing his resignation from the membership of the state assembly, Mulayam Singh told mediapersons: "I will concentrate on the national parliament." He has anointed his younger brother Shivpal Yadav to succeed him as leader of the opposition in the state assembly.

May 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - At least 125 supporters of the Samajwadi Party (SP) have been named in a rioting case after they allegedly disrupted polling in an Uttar Pradesh village, police said Tuesday. However, police denied media reports that SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was accused in the case.

May 7th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh had an argument with a poll official in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri constituency after his bodyguards were stopped from entering the polling booth alongwith him. The former chief minister, who has Z plus security, got angry when an election official at the polling station in Saifai locality, said that as per the norms only one person could accompany him into the booth.

May 7th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Thursday said he will support the party that will dismiss Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati's 'unconstitutional' government in Uttar Pradesh. 'Whichever party will dismiss the unconstitutional government in Uttar Pradesh, we will support them,' Mulayam Singh told reporters after casting his vote at a polling both in his constituency Mainpuri.

May 7th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A no-nonsense poll officer Thursday rubbed Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav the wrong way after he refused to allow more than one security guard to enter the polling station along with him in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri constituency. The former chief minister, who has Z plus security, was incensed with the election official when he went to cast his vote at the polling station in Saifai locality.

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 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Tuesday said it is not taking any action against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, whose activists were filmed distributing money to potential voters. 'We have decided not to proceed into the matter,' Deputy Election Commissioner R.

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 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission has issued notice to the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, for allegedly misbehaving with a senior officer in Uttar Pradesh. Addressing media persons, the Election Commissioner S.

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 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Friday transferred three senior police officials in Uttar Pradesh after complaints they were favouring a particular political party. Complaints was filed against Senior Superintendent of Police Gorakhpur Yogendra Pachauri, Superintendent of Police Kushinagar, Gyan Singh, and Superintendent of Police Mainpuri S.R.S Aditya.

March 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Under the poll panel scanner for his alleged disparaging remarks against the Mainpuri district magistrate, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Friday said he had not made any derogatory comments about the woman IAS officer and his party always believed in equality for women. 'I have not not made any derogatory comment about the district magistrate and the Samajwadi Party has always believed in equality for women and women empowerment,' Yadav told reporters here.

March 25th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Election Commission will inquire into reports that Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav had made disparaging remarks against a woman IAS officer in Uttar Pradesh. Yadav, while addressing a public rally in Mainpuri district Monday, had reportedly said that district magistrate Ministhy Dileep was not probably aware of who was contesting from Mainpuri and should have her brain checked.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Thursday slapped a notice on Mulayam Singh Yadav after his activists were filmed distributing money to potential voters even as the Samajwadi Party chief admitted it was a 'mistake' though not a bribe. Hours after the poll panel pulled him up for violating the model code of conduct for the April-May Lok Sabha elections, Mulayam Singh told reporters in Lucknow: 'Yeh such hai ke bhul hui (it's correct, it was a mistake).' But he added that 'every year he gave gifts to people on Holi.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Election Commission Thursday issued notice to Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav after his activists were filmed distributing money to potential voters. Asking him to explain why he violated the model code of conduct, which came into force March 2 when the Lok Sabha elections were announced, the poll panel asked Mulayam Singh to reply by March 14.