Lucknow Jan 20 PTI Making an important announcement Samajwadi Party SP president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said if his party comes to power in Uttar Pradesh it will restore the old pension scheme benefitting lakhs of state government employees who have been agitating for the same for long as well as the Yash Bharti awardsWith another relative of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav joining the BJP after Aparna Yadav Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at the ruling party thanking it for ending parivarvaad dynastic politics in his partyOn coming to power the Samajwadi Party will restore the old pension scheme which will benefit the teachers employees and officers of the state government I have already held discussions with the employees and economic experts and have found out that we will be able to arrange funds for it by creating a corpus he told reporters hereWe will seek the support of the state government employees in the upcoming Assembly election on the issue of pension the SP chief saidThe leaders of the employees union have met several times and made a demand to this effect The BJP government had brought a new manual through which the employees appointed after April 2005 were denied this support and security on retirement Yadav said adding that restoring the pension scheme will be part of his partys poll manifestoThe employees have held agitations demanding the restoration of the old pension scheme They have alleged that the new pension scheme depends on the share market and therefore has uncertainty attached to itAccording to Rajya Karamchari Sanyukt Parishad president J N Tiwari the number of employees appointed after 2005 is around 10 lakh and most of them are teachersThe SP president also said his party is against privatisation and termed outsourcing a wrong practice that denies the poor and the deprived sections of the society their rightsThe rights given by the Constitution of B R Ambedkar are being snatched by outsourcing The SP is thinking about this as well wait for the manifesto he said adding that the party will release its manifesto after the BJP which has been working with a double engine for the last over four years and practising discriminationLater in a tweet the SP chief said on coming to power his party will also restore the Yash Bharti awardsThe old pension scheme and the Yash Bharti samman will be restored on the SP and its allies coming to power and Nagar Bharti awards will be given to outstanding social workers litterateurs journalists artists sportspersons and entrepreneurs professionals who create jobs Bicycle in 22 he said in the tweet in HindiInstituted in 1994 the Yash Bharti award was the highest civilian award given by the Uttar Pradesh government The recipients were awarded a letter of commendation a shawl Rs 11 lakh and a monthly pension of Rs 50000 on demand However after the process of selecting the recipients received flak from the media and activists the awards were discontinued by the Yogi Adityanath governmentWhen his views were sought on Pramod Gupta another relative of Mulayam Singh Yadav who joined the BJP on Thursday after Aparna Yadav the SP chief took a swipe at the ruling party saying it should be happy nowThe BJP should be happy about this The allegation of parivarvaad that it levelled against us at least it is ending our parivarvaad and I thank the BJP for this he saidThe saffron party which has been opposed to dynastic politics wants to move forward by hatching conspiracies the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister allegedThe SP does not instigate differences in any family This is the work of the BJP he saidGupta is said to be the brother-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadavs second wife Aparna Yadav who joined the BJP on Wednesday is the SP patriarchs daughter-in-lawThe manner in which leaders with a wide support base like Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chauhan have defected from the BJP and joined the SP the way the SP has brought different parties together the BJP has lost this fight of perception and the SP is way ahead Yadav saidThe Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are scheduled to be held in seven phases from February 10 to March 7 and the counting of votes will be taken up on March 10 PTI SAB RC

Lucknow Jan 20 PTI Making an important announcement Samajwadi Party SP president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said if his party comes to power in Uttar Pradesh it will restore the old pension scheme benefitting lakhs of state government employees who have been agitating for the same for longWith another relative of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav joining the BJP after Aparna Yadav Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at the ruling party thanking it for ending parivarvaad dynastic politics in his partyOn coming to power the Samajwadi Party will restore the old pension scheme which will benefit the teachers employees and officers of the state government I have already held discussions with the employees and economic experts and have found out that we will be able to arrange funds for it by creating a corpus he told reporters hereWe will seek the support of the state government employees in the upcoming Assembly election on the issue of pension the SP chief saidThe leaders of the employees union have met several times and made a demand to this effect The BJP government had brought a new manual through which the employees appointed after April 2005 were denied this support and security on retirement Yadav said adding that restoring the pension scheme will be part of his partys poll manifestoThe employees have held agitations demanding the restoration of the old pension scheme They have alleged that the new pension scheme depends on the share market and therefore has uncertainty attached to itAccording to Rajya Karamchari Sanyukt Parishad president J N Tiwari the number of employees appointed after 2005 is around 10 lakh and most of them are teachersThe SP president also said his party is against privatisation and termed outsourcing a wrong practice that denies the poor and the deprived sections of the society their rightsThe rights given by the Constitution of B R Ambedkar are being snatched by outsourcing The SP is thinking about this as well wait for the manifesto he said adding that the party will release its manifesto after the BJP which had been working with a double engine for the last over four years and practising discriminationWhen his views were sought on Pramod Gupta another relative of Mulayam Singh Yadav who joined the BJP on Thursday after Aparna Yadav the SP chief took a swipe at the ruling party saying it should be happy nowThe BJP should be happy about this The allegation of parivarvaad that it levelled against us at least it is ending our parivarvaad and I thank the BJP for this he saidThe saffron party which has been opposed to dynastic politics wants to move forward by hatching conspiracies the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister allegedThe SP does not instigate differences in any family this is the work of the BJP he saidGupta is said to be the brother-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadavs second wife Aparna Yadav who joined the BJP on Wednesday is the SP patriarchs daughter-in-lawThe manner in which leaders with a wide support base like Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chauhan have defected from the BJP and joined the SP the way the SP has brought different parties together the BJP has lost this fight of perception and the SP is way ahead Yadav saidTo a question on Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya the SP chief said he has not been able to safeguard his honour and could do nothing for the people of his casteThe Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are scheduled to be held in seven phases from February 10 to March 7 and the counting of votes will be taken up on March 10 PTI SAB RC

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 16 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged that the backward classes and Dalits have understood that it's BJP's strategy to privatize everything with time and later jeopardize BR Ambedkar's Constitution and finish the reservation system.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 16 (ANI): Former minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet, Dara Singh Chauhan, on Sunday joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the presence of its national president Akhilesh Yadav.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 15 (ANI): Former Uttar Pradesh Minister Swami Prasad Maurya, who resigned this week from the Yogi Adityanath government and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Assembly polls, on Friday said that former state cabinet Minister Dara Singh Chauhan will join the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 14 (ANI): Reacting to the spate of resignations in the Bharatiya Janata Party, including three ministers, ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, state Minister Sidharth Nath Singh alleged that some of the MLAs had left for their "personal benefits" and are involved in misguiding OBCs and Dalits in the state.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 13 (ANI): Days after UP's Social Welfare Minister Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from BJP, another MLA from Bidhuna Vinay Shakya has also put down his papers on Thursday.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 12 (ANI): Maharashtra cabinet minister Jitendra Awhad on Wednesday slammed the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh for "issuing an arrest warrant" against Swami Prasad Maurya who resigned from the party citing neglect of the Dalits by the government.

Bhadohi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 12 (ANI): Rubbishing reports of resignation from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Uttar Pradesh MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi said on Wednesday that he is dedicated to the party, has not written the resignation letter, and would file an FIR against the ones behind it.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 12 (ANI): With Dara Singh Chauhan resigning as minister from Yogi Adityanath government on Wednesday, Samajwadi Paty leader Akhilesh Yadav "welcomed" him in the party through a tweet and said SP and its allies will take forward the movement for equality in the society.