Samajwadi Party speaks in support of dismissal of Mayawati Govt.

September 16th, 2009 VARANASI - Police on Wednesday resorted to a baton charge angry Samajwadi Party workers who were protesting against the Mayawati Government's policies. The incident took place when Samajwadi Party activists went to hand over a memorandum to the district magistrate.

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 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party (SP) General Secretary Amar Singh on Tuesday submitted a letter pledging support for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to President Pratibha Devisingh Patil. "I have been authorised and directed by the SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav to offer our support for the formation of new UPA Government under the leadership of Dr.

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 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Monday questioned the authenticity of former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's letter, being used by the Bhartiya Janata Party's (BJP) Lucknow candidate Lalji Tandon as an appeal to the people of the state capital for support. After representing the prestigious Lucknow Lok Sabha seat for five consecutive terms, Vajpayee opted out of the 2009 Lok Sabha polls due to ill-health and handpicked Tandon to contest.

April 26th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Samajwadi Party Sunday said it was open to a tie-up with the Congress after the Lok Sabha polls but ruled out any truck with the Third Front and the Left as they were aligned with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). 'As long as our arch rival BSP chief Mayawati is with the Left parties or the Third Front, we are not going for any post-poll tie-up with them,' said Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, in the city to canvass for his party candidates.

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.

April 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati Friday gave yet another jolt to her archrival, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, as she wooed away his close confidante Banwari Lal Kanchal, a prominent leader of traders in the state. Kanchal has quit the Samajwadi Party as well as his Rajya Sabha membership.

April 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party Rajya Sabha MP Banwari Lal Kanchal and his supporters Friday joined the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) here in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and party chief Mayawati. Kanchal, who is the chief of Uttar Pradesh Udyog Vyapar Pratinidhi Mandal - the traders' wing of the Samajwadi Party - told reporters that he decided to join the BSP after finding his own party oppressing businessmen.

April 13th, 2009 VARANASI/KOLKATA - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said that her party pulled out from the United Progressive Alliance Government-led by Congress party as it discriminated in releasing funds for the state. "With a deep heart, I have to say that the Central Government has not financially helped us with even a single rupee.

March 21st, 2009 VADODARA - Samajwadi Party national general secretary Amar Singh Friday said that Varun Gandhi has become the new poster boy of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and surpassed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in delivering 'hate speeches' directed against Muslims. 'Muslims continue to live in fear under the shadow of the ruling BJP headed by Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat.

March 16th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Samajwadi party (SP) on Sunday said that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L. K. Advani becomes the Prime Minister after the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati would become his deputy.

February 9th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Reacting sharply to the unruly scenes in the state assembly here Tuesday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati lashed out at Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, accusing him of taking out the party's ire against the Congress party by attacking state Governor T.V.Rajeshwar. The chief minister was speaking after the inauguration of All India Police Athletics Meet at the PAC grounds here.

January 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday urged the central government to probe Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's acquisitions, especially the expensive birthday gifts showered on her. Referring to her self-proclaimed collection of party funds that she received as birthday gifts, Yadav said: 'It is high time that the centre intervenes and directs the income tax department to go into details of the money Mayawati received in the name of gifts on her birthday on Jan 15.' Reacting to Mayawati's assertion during the course of her birthday celebration earlier in the day that her birthday receipts had doubled over what she received in 2008, the Samajwadi Party chief said: 'Since the amount was not declared by her, she could just put any figure and attribute the receipt to just anybody.' He felt there was reason to believe that the Income Tax authorities were particularly lenient with Mayawati, 'as she is always let off by the department that seems to be gunning for me and my family'.

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.