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Will withdraw as CM candidate if Congress, SP form alliance: Sheila Dikshi
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 17 (ANI): Congress leader Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday said she will withdraw as the chief ministerial candidate if her party enters into an alliance with the Samajwadi Party for the high-stakes Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
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UP polls: Sheila Dikshit "amused" to see speculations
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 27 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday rubbished reports suggesting that she has withdrawn her name as the party's chief ministerial candidate for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
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Sheila Dikshit denies report of withdrawing as UP CM candidate
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 26 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Sheila Dikshit has denied reports of withdrawing her name as Congress chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
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Cong eagerly waiting for Priyanka to campaign in UP: Sheila Dikshit
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 24 (ANI): Congress chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit on Monday asserted that Priyanka Gandhi will act as a catalyst and give the grand old party's campaign in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh a major boost.
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SP pari-'war' in dock as Shivpal says will contest polls under N
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct. 23 (ANI): Emerging out of a meeting with Samajwadi Party supremo and his brother Mulayam Singh Yadav after being sacked, along with three others, from the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet, party state chief Shivpal Yadav on Sunday said that he did not bother about
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Varanasi stampede: Sheila Dikshit blames lax police, organizers
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Congress' chief ministerial candidate in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election Sheila Dikshit on Monday blamed the state administration for the killing of 24 people in the Varanasi stampede during a sabha of Baba Jai Gurdev.
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Shivpal announces truce, says will name Akhilesh as CM if party wins
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Ballia (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct. 16 (ANI): After Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh created a ripple in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh political circle by saying that MLAs and party's parliamentary board will take a call on the next chief ministerial candidate, party state presid
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UP wants to get rid of family politics courtesy Akhilesh's failure:BS
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 15 (ANI): Launching a scathing attack on the Samaj Party a day after party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav kept suspense on the chief ministerial candidate, the Bhahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) on Saturday said the people of U
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Mulayam keeps suspense on second term for Akhilesh as CM
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct. 14 (ANI): Clearly indicating that all was not well within his party fold, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday said that the chief ministerial candidate would be decided after the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.
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BJP only worships cows, doesn't protect them: Sheila Dikshit
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Aug. 7 (ANI): Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for blaming 'Gau Rakshaks' (cow protectors) for outrageous incidents like the flogging of four Dalits in Gujarat last month, Congress' UP chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit on Sunday sai
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U.P. is still there where it was 27 years back: Sheila Dikshit
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow, Aug 7 (ANI): Talking about their slogan "27 saal, UP behaal (27 year but UP in dire straits)" in run-up to the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Congress chief ministerial candidate Shiela Dikshit has said the slogan has big impact and the situation of Uttar Pradesh is act
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Swami Prasad Maurya taunts Cong for bringing rejected leaders in UP
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Sharvasti, Aug. 3 (ANI): Expelled Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Swami Prasad Maurya today taunted the Congress for declaring Sheila Dikshit as the party's chief ministerial candidate for Uttar Pradesh and said it is strange that the grand old party is bringing in rejected faces in the poli
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