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  Samajwadi Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samajwadi Party (Socialist Party) is a political party in India.
It is one of several parties that emerged when the Janata Dal was fragmented.
In the 13th Lok Sabha (1999-2004), it was the 5th largest party with 27 members (3 of whom were expelled later).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samajwadi_Party   (199 words)

  
 SP hopes to form govt in UP, wary of Mayawati
Mulayam Singh Yadav's party is also upbeat after the revival of ties with the Left parties and hopes to cash in on the presence of V P Singh in the recently set up Lok Morcha.
Party leaders are already camping in the state gearing up for the elections, which could be held anytime before March next year.
Samajwadi Party on Friday alleged that there was a "tacit understanding" between BJP and BSP in Uttar Pradesh so that Mayawati could become the chief minister for the third time with BJP support.
www.ambedkar.org /News/SPhopes.htm   (731 words)

  
 News Headings
The Samajwadi Party leader, who was being wooed by the Left parties, specially CPM General Secretary Harkishen Singh Surjeet to agree to extend outside support to a Congress government today said that he was in favour of West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu heading an alternative government at the Centre.
While the Samajwadi Party chief, with the backing of 20 MPs, has called an meeting of non-Congress secular parties like the AIADMK and the Left parties at his residence in the evening, reports said that Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav’s compulsions in Uttar Pradesh came in the way of extending support to Mrs Sonia Gandhi.
The Samajwadi Party is also not happy with the way the Congress staked its claim for forming the government without taking its allies into confidence.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99apr22/head.htm   (1146 words)

  
 GN Online: Samajwadi Party ups the ante in UP
Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of having made preparations for large-scale violence, and termed the Congress party as non-existent in UP.
The BJP and the Samajwadi Party are projected to be running neck and neck in a multi-cornered election, while speculations are rife that the BJP and BSP may join hands in case a hung assembly is elected.
The Samajwadi Party general secretary announced his party's determination to maintain equal distance from both the BJP and the Congress party and said that there is no question of taking the Congress party's support in their effort to form a government in the state after Khurshid's statement.
www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=39790   (628 words)

  
 Samajwadi Party exudes confidence- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Moreover, it is the party leadership's calculated move to wean away independents and BSP legislators into its fold, which now forms the basis of its conviction — the calculated silence of the Congress party on government formation issue notwithstanding.
A senior party leader stated as much when he said that the party had decided long time back that in the eventuality of the BSP breaking up, the SP would ensure that the breakaway group eventually merges with it.
The underlying intent was clear — to increase the party's numerical strength in the House and thereby ensure that it always enjoyed a superior position.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?msid=166483   (485 words)

  
 India - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about India
In addition to having to deal with the virtual civil war in the Punjab caused by the mass migrations, the new government had to deal with the problems associated with the Princely States (see India of the Princes), the territories in the subcontinent that were ruled by native princes, not directly under British rule.
The party's president Sitaram Kesri took over as parliamentary leader in January 1997; he criticized the programme of economic liberalization that had been introduced six years earlier, believing that the reforms had been implemented too quickly and with too great a burden being placed on the poor.
Championing the poor and defying the caste system, she was twice elected MP as a member of the Samajwadi party.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /India   (8423 words)

  
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Samajwadi Party leaders, led by Mulayam Singh Yadav, insisted that the last rites should be performed in Mirzapur, about 350 km away from the tiny hamlet called Gurhan ka Purwa, in Jalaun district, that served as Phoolan’s birth place.
So far, the Samajwadi Party has been able to keep its conflict with the CPM to a minimum as the latter feels that Mulayam, being the most potent anti-BJP force in Uttar Pradesh, should be kept in good humour.
Samajwadi general secretary Amar Singh had yesterday alleged that the murder was the result of a deep-rooted and pre-planned conspiracy.
www.telegraphindia.com /1010727/national.htm   (4121 words)

  
 Know your party: Samajwadi Party
The Samajwadi Party was born on October 4, 1992, in the historic Begum Hazrat Mahal Park in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
The Samajwadi Party is also wooing Thakurs in a big way through general secretary Amar Singh.
The growth of regional parties coupled with the caste factor, especially in Uttar Pradesh, has made the Samajwadi Party a force to reckon with.
www.rediff.com /election/2004/may/07espec2.htm   (606 words)

  
 BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Samajwadi Party stakes claim in UP
The regional Samajwadi Party has staked a claim to form the next government in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh.
The Samajwadi Party has emerged as the largest party in the state in elections held this month.
The state Congress party chief, O Ibobhi Singh, will head the Congress legislature party and if the four-party coalition forms the government, he is likely to be the chief minister.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/south_asia/1844447.stm   (409 words)

  
 Majeed Memon quits Samajwadi Party
The people parties nominate for the Rajya Sabha are those who have lost the Lok Sabha elections or those who have helped the party in some way but don't have a mass base.
He was certain that the party would nominate him for the Upper House considering his expertise on POTA, TADA and related matters.
To make matters worse, the very next day, the party sent him a show cause notice asking him to explain why he had issued a statement in favour of former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi during the general election, which Joshi contested from the Mumbai North Central seat.
www.rediff.com /news/2004/jun/04sp.htm   (643 words)

  
 Daily Excelsior....News Page
Party sources said that during their meetings with Gandhi several party MPs emphasised that the leadership should make all out efforts to avert mid-term polls and to ensure installation of a minority Congress Government.
The Party, which has so far maintained that it will give outside support to a secular Government preferably led by the Congress, was of the view that in the event of Congress failing, the President was likely to call it as the third largest party.
The Samajwadi Party general secretary, Mr Amar Singh, who is a rich businessman, was used to prevent Mr Mulayam Yadav from supporting the proposal for a Congress minority Government.
www.dailyexcelsior.com /99apr25/news.htm   (5223 words)

  
 Whom to vote and whom not to, ponder Muslims, The Milli Gazette, Vol.5 No.07, MG101 (1-15 Apr 04)
The non-BJP parties — the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress — are themselves to be blamed for this state of affairs.
Now the two parties, particularly the Samajwadi Party, are trying to block an alliance by the other with the Congress since such a tie-up will hamper their respective chances.
On the other hand, the Samajwadi Party leaders were counseling the Congress against a tie-up with the BSP on the ground that the latter was a corrupt party.
www.milligazette.com /Archives/2004/01-15Apr04-Print-Edition/011504200492.htm   (1374 words)

  
 News India-Times.com, Online Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Political pundits have been predicting a hung Assembly and leaders of the principal parties in the fray — Vajpayee’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which heads the government in the state, former chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, the Congress Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) — are already exploring prospects of post-election coalitions.
The party’s handling of distribution of tickets displeased several allies and it was, perhaps, to dispel the impression of differences that NDA leaders, after a meeting in Lucknow last week, stressed that though they were fighting the election as separate parties, they would come together to form a coalition government in the state.
The Samajwadi Party, Congress Party and the BSP have all fielded a large number of Muslim candidates, and Mulayam Singh has announced unprecedented sops for the community if his party is voted to power.
www.newsindia-times.com /2002/02/15/sp-elec-top.html   (1117 words)

  
 archive: Who is the real supporter of BJP?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Samajwadi Party is proud to have launched a ceaseless war against the communal and venomous forces like the RSS, the BJP and the VHP.
It is the principled stand of the Samajwadi Party to eliminate the communal forces in the country.
The Samajwadi Party wants to eliminate the BJP, but at the same time it is prepared to make sacrifice to stop the country from slipping into foreign hands.
www.hvk.org /articles/0599/67.html   (1173 words)

  
 HardNews - A many-splintered thing
The remaining faction of the party is named as Janata Dal (United), which joins hands with the BJP to become a part of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
The new party is now led by Samata Party president George Fernandes and continues to remain a part of the NDA coalition.
The party always appears to be on the crossroads, partly due to perpetual squabbles for one-upmanship amongst its leaders.
www.hardnewsmedia.com /sep2004/ppols.php   (1145 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Samajwadi Party is a bit peeved that so far no signals have come from the Congress.
Declaring that the Samajwadi Party was committed to secularism and wanted a “secular alternative” to the NDA at the Centre, he said his party was “ready for any sacrifice”.
The Samajwadi Party general secretary said Mulayam Singh and he were in “constant touch” with Surjeet and the party will take a decision only in consultation with the Left parties.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040515/asp/nation/story_3250559.asp   (578 words)

  
 Mayawati gaining ground in UP, The Milli Gazette, Vol. 3 No. 12, MG 58 (16-30 June 2002)
The defeat of the Samajwadi Party candidates in the recently-held Lok Sabha and Assembly bye-elections in Uttar Pradesh, particularly in Baheri seat in Bareilly district which it held in the February general elections, had been interpreted as a reversal for the party and a major gain for the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party.
Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, Mr.
The performance of the party in U.P. in the next Lok Sabha elections is important for the BJP to retain its status as a dominant political force in the country as it is not expecting to do well in many states, in which it is a force to reckon with.
www.milligazette.com /Archives/15062002/1506200240.htm   (769 words)

  
 Cong-SP rift to the fore in UP - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Samajwadi Party may not have objection to these parties joining hands to contest the Assembly elections in the four states, but it may not like them to strike an alliance to contest the Lok Sabha elections next year in Uttar Pradesh.
Moreover, it was the Samajwadi Party, among the opposition parties, which had come out against Mrs Gandhi’s prime ministerial aspirations in the late nineties.
The Congress circles point out that the Samajwadi Party did not try to effect a split in the BJP though a large number of dissident legislators were ready to switch over their loyalties to the party.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/nov05/n8.asp   (957 words)

  
 Saffron is in and secularism out, for Mulayam, The Milli Gazette, Vol.5 No.08, MG102 (16-30 Apr 04)
Though the Samajwadi Party had expressed its firm views against the pre-poll alliances, it went ahead with an electoral pact with the Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ajit Singh on the ground that the latter was a reliable partner.
The Samajwadi Party leaders are now claiming that it could not arrive at a poll alliance with the Congress in UP as the latter did not show any eagerness for such a tie-up since that party was trying to forge a poll pact with the Bahujan Samaj Party.
But it is also a truth that if the Samajwadi Party was at all enthusiastic for a tie-up with the Congress, it should have reached at some kind of understanding with the latter to avoid the splitting of the secular votes.
milligazette.com /Archives/2004/16-30Apr04-Print-Edition/1604200421.htm   (1083 words)

  
 Web Exclusive > Chat Transcript > Amar Singh
The Samajwadi party from the days of Lohia is an output of anti-Congressism, so it cannot become another face of the Congress party.
The Samajwadi party believes in consistent morality and ethics and that is why we have not joined the gang of political absconders like the BJP has done in UP.
Her long cherished desire of becoming Rani with Kora paani to one and all has fallen flat and even her party men are realising that what a mistake it would have been if she would have allowed to head the country.
www.india-today.com /chat/200006/amarsingh.html   (2893 words)

  
 rediff.com: No one will be allowed to topple UP government: BJP
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday asserted that "moneybags, flmarketeers and powerbrokers" would not be allowed to destabilise the Mayawati-led coalition government in Uttar Pradesh.
Party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said the Samajwadi Party had failed to form a government even after two months of the assembly polls.
He claimed that the Samajwadi Party delegation, led by general secretary Amar Singh, which went to the Raj Bhavan to meet Governor Vishnukant Shastri, could not even furnish the name of a single Bharatiya Janata Party legislator who had withdrawn support to the government.
inhome.rediff.com /news/2002/nov/01up5.htm   (477 words)

  
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NEW DELHI: A Samajwadi Party conspiracy to manhandle Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday on the issue of the Ayodhya temple was foiled by a timely tip-off from the Intelligence Bureau even as both the Houses of Parliament were adjourned without transacting any business for the seventh consecutive day.
Meanwhile, a settlement was reached between the Government and the Opposition parties after a week of deadlock to have a discussion under Rule 184 (requires voting) of the Rules and Procedures of the Lok Sabha and the debate will begin on Wednesday at 12.30 and conclude on Thursday with the Prime Minister's response and voting.
The Samajwadi Party member's motion is on the Prime Minister's statement while others have sought resignations of the three chargesheeted ministers.
www.angelfire.com /in/jalnews/12122.html   (571 words)

  
 Samajwadi Party,Latest News for Samajwadi Party,India
Samajwadi Party stands for Equality and Prosperity of all.
Samajwadi Party is in favour of 'Indo Pak Bangladesh Mahasangh'.
Party believes that Agriculture, Small and Medium scale Industry is the backbone of Indian Economy and hence every assistance should be given to these sectors.
www.indian-elections.com /partyprofiles/samajwadi-party.html   (239 words)

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