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.
Former Uttar Pradesh Minister Sidharth Nath Singh launched a scathing attack on Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief Akhilesh Yadav and challenged him to throw out SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya from the party over his remarks on the scripture Ramcharitmanas.
Ayodhya seer Jagadguru Paramhans on Friday demanded immediate action against the Samajwadi Party MLC Swami Prasad Maurya over his remark on Ramcharitmanas, an epic Hindu religious book which is based on Ramayana.
Nepal's Supreme Court on Friday disqualified Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Rabi Lamichhane from his posts after he was found guilty of producing an 'invalid' citizenship certificate to contest the recent general elections.
Denouncing the slanderous remarks of Samajwadi Party MLC Swami Prasad Maurya over Ramcharitmanas, Hindu seers in Magh Mela in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj demanded the government to take stringent action against the Samajwadi Party leader.
Ashish Mishra, the main accused in the Tikunia incident in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh and son of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Teni, has been released from the district jail late on Friday evening.
Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Swami Prasad Maurya on Friday targeted the BJP-led central government, saying the Padma Vibhushan award doesn't do justice to the persona and standing of the late party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav as he deserved the Bharat Ratna.
70-year-old Kapildev Prasad, a resident of Bihar's Nalanda, has been conferred with the prestigious Padma Shri award after being associated with the textile industry for almost 60 years.