Samajwadi Party leader, his supporters join BSP

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after the expelled Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was told by his former party to quit the parliamentary post, a combative Jaswant Singh Tuesday said he would not quit as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. Asked by reporters if he would oblige the BJP by quitting the PAC, Jaswant Singh said he would not.

August 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh on Tuesday invited Former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh, who was expelled from the BJP for his remarks on Mohammad Ali Jinnah, to join his party. Talking to a private news channel, Amar Singh said that Jaswant Singh was welcome in his party.

August 19th, 2009 AGRA - The opposition Samajwadi Party on Wednesday criticised the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre and the Mayawati Government in Uttar Pradesh on issues of rising prices, suicides by farmers and foreign policy. Addressing the inaugural session of the party's Special National Conference here, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav called on party workers and activists to take part in a state-wide "Jail Bharo" (fill jails) agitation against the Mayawati government.

May 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Samajwadi Party may after all join the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance. SP leader Amar Singh congratulated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi for the ruling alliance's grand victory in the elections.

May 10th, 2009 DEHRADUN - Senior Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Sunday denied having played any role in the decision taken over getting close to Bharatiya Janata Party's rebel leader Kalyan Singh. "I want to make this clear that I have nothing to do with the decision taken on Kalyan Singh," Amar Singh said here.

April 20th, 2009 ALLAHABAD - The Samajwadi Party has said that it would join the government if the coalition came back to power. "I am also saying that I will not repeat my mistake, either I will participate in the Central Government or sit in opposition.

March 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Saturday said 'all options' on alliance in Karnataka for the Lok Sabha polls were open even as former chief minister S. Bangarappa, who quit the Samajwadi Party, returned to the party to 'strengthen secular forces'.

March 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav Sunday said no alliance has been finalised with the Congress but stressed that there is 'no dispute' between the two parties as well. 'We want to contest the elections with them (Congress).

February 21st, 2009 RAMPUR - Samajwadi Party leader Mohammed Azam Khan Friday flayed general secretary Amar Singh, but without naming him, on charges of hurting Muslims by teaming up with former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh. Khan, the estranged national general secretary of the party, alleged in a statement that 'some people who obtained Rajya Sabha membership with our support are busy tarnishing my image and harming the party organisation'.

February 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan Tuesday triggered a controversy by terming party MP and former actress Jayaprada 'an agent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'. 'Not only the BJP, the actress is an agent of all those who are against the ideology of Samajwadi Party,' Khan said in Rampur, where she has been renominated the Samajwadi candidate for the coming Lok Sabha elections.

February 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan Tuesday triggered a controversy by terming party MP and former actress Jayaprada 'an agent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'. 'Not only the BJP, the actress is an agent of all those who are against the ideology of Samajwadi Party,' Khan said in Rampur, where she has been renominated the Samajwadi candidate for the coming Lok Sabha elections.

February 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh met here Sunday for a possible tie-up in general elections. The meeting comes amid tensions between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, which heads the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), over seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh.

February 6th, 2009 BHOPAL - Narayan Tripathi, a former president of Samajwadi Party's Madhya Pradesh unit, has resigned from the party's primary membership to protest its growing ties with former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kalyan Singh. He said in a statement Saturday that he was quitting as he was hurt at party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's new ties with Kalyan Singh, who, according to Tripathi, was not only responsible but also involved in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992.

January 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh Friday said actor Sanjay Dutt, whom the Samajwadi Party plans to field from Lucknow in the upcoming general elections, should not have been booked under a tough terror law and 'he is not a terrorist.' Dutt was convicted under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (TADA) for possessing an AK 47 rifle after the 1993 Mumbai blasts. His appeal against his conviction is pending in the Supreme Court.

January 13th, 2009 MUMBAI - Congress MP Priya Dutt Wednesday said her film star brother Sanjay Dutt's decision to contest the Lok Sabha elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket is his own and there was no feud in the family over the issue. 'It is his choice whether to contest elections or not and from which party.