Mau District Magistrate Arun Kumar ordered the confiscation of properties worth Rs 2 crores of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's close aide Haji Rafiq Ahmad under the Gangster Act on Tuesday.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad chief Alok Kumar has hit out at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav after the elevation of Swami Prasad Maurya as the party's general secretary despite his controversial remark on Ramcharitmanas.
BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday launched a scathing attack on the BJP and SP, saying both parties collusion to polarise upcoming elections and divert public attention from the burning national issues.
Samajwadi Party MLC Swami Prasad Maurya on Monday through a tweet attacked the seer (Mahant) Raju Das stating that he could have just cursed him instead of spending Rs 21 lakh to get him killed.
Through his tweet, the SP MLC Mauya has alleged that the seer Raju Das spent Rs 21 lakh to get h
The meeting will have over 150 participants including G20 member countries, nine special invitee guest countries - Bangladesh, Egypt, Mauritius, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, UAE, and Spain.
The case has been filed against 10 named and several unidentified people at the PGI police station under sections 120 B, 142, 143, 153-A, 295, 295-A, 298, 504, 505(2), 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Maurya stirred controversy by demanding the deletion of "insulting comments and sarcasm" targeted at particular castes and sects in Ramcharitmanas, a poem based on the epic Ramayana.
He questioned the hoisting of the tricolour by Rahul Gandhi at Lal Chowk in Kashmir and said that Rahul Gandhi does not know how to respect the tricolour. "Where he unfurled the tricolour, his own cut-out picture was placed higher than the tricolour," said the Deputy CM.
Samajwadi Party (SP) MLC Swami Prasad Maurya on Sunday tweeted that he will continue to protest against the conspiracy of insulting the Adivasis, women and Dalits in the name of religion.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav was received with black flags, when he participated in the Maa Pitambara 108 Mahayagya on the banks of the Gomti in Daliganj, to protest against party leader Swami Prasad Maurya's statement on Ramcharitmanas.
On Sunday, Maurya, considered a prominent OBC leader in Uttar Pradesh, had sought a ban on the work composed by the 16th-century poet-saint Tulsidas alleging that Dalits and women have been "insulted" in Ramcharitmanas.
Refusing to apologise for his remarks on Ramacharitmanas, Maurya said that the party is seeking justice for the scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and the backward classes of the country.