Lucknow Apr 23 PTI Two delegations of the Samajwadi Party will visit Uttar Pradeshs Bareilly and Shahjahanpur districts where the authorities have bulldozed the petrol pump of an MLA and a building owned by the family of a party leader respectivelyWhile one SP delegation will visit Shahjahanpur on April 25 the other will go to Bareilly on April 26The teams have been formed on the instruction of Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav according to a press release issued on Saturday by the partys state unit chief Naresh Uttam PatelPatel said Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Sanjay Lathar former minister Omkar Singh Yadav MLA Kamal Akhtar and ex-MP Praveen Singh Aron have been included in the delegation that will visit Bareilly and speak to the district magistrateSamajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said former minister Hemraj Verma and Rajpal Kashyap are part of the delegation that will visit ShahjahanpurA petrol pump that was built illegally by Samajwadi Party MLA Shazil Islam Ansari was bulldozed by the Bareilly Development Authority on April 7 days after he was booked for a provocative remark against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi AdityanathOn April 21 an illegal structure owned by the family of a former BJP MLA who had crossed over to the Samajwadi Party before the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls was demolished by the Shahjahanpur administrationThe action came two days after former MLA Roshanlal Verma said he hopes for justice from Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath He had accused his political rivals of conspiring against himDuring the assembly election campaign the Samajwadi Party had repeatedly referred to Adityanath as Bulldozer Baba The BJP too invoked the bulldozer saying it will continue to be used against illegal property occupied by criminals PTI CDN NSD

Lucknow Mar 19 PTI The Samajwadi Party has convened a meeting on March 26 and it is expected to review its performance in the recently-concluded Uttar Pradesh assembly polls and plan for the upcoming legislative council electionsIts newly elected MLAs and members of the legislative council will be part of the meeting to be held at the partys headquarters here The meet will be presided by Samajwadi Party SP chief Akhilesh Yadav the partys chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said on SaturdayIn the recently-held polls the BJP retained power in the state by winning 255 of the 403 assembly seats while the SP won 111 seatsEarlier this meeting was to be held on March 21 but it has been rescheduled to March 26 because of the nominations for the legislative council elections Chaudhary saidBesides reviewing the SPs performance in the assembly elections the strategy for the upcoming legislative council elections will also be discussed in the meeting sources in the party saidThe presence of all MLAs and members of the legislative council will be mandatory they said adding that the SP will review the shortcomings which led to its below expectation performance in the assembly polls PTI SAB ANB ANB

Lucknow Jan 23 PTI At 8 feet and 1 inch Dharmendra Pratap Singh from Uttar Pradeshs Pratapgarh has always stood out dwarfing most others around him and leaving them awestruckNow the former event manager who claims to be the tallest man in India is making his political debut with the Samajwadi Party and hopes to help it come out on the top in the upcoming state assembly pollsSingh told PTI on Sunday I will work to take the party to greater heights and dwarf the stature of my opponents The stature of the rival political parties has already been reduced as a number of their leaders have joined the BJP Whatever duties are assigned to me by the party I will discharge them to the best of my ability If the party asks me to campaign for SP chief Akhilesh bhaiya then I will go to Karhal and seek votes for him he saidSingh said he decided to join the SP as the party does not discriminate against anyone and takes everyone alongResponding to a question about the SP having a pro-criminal image Singh said If there are criminals and mafia elements in the SP then you must specifically point them out There are people who only spread rumours and rumours should not be believed Has there been any party under whose tenure there were no riots Asked if he will be contesting the assembly polls Singh said it is for the SP president to decideAs of now I have just joined the party As far as contesting the assembly elections is concerned the decision in this regard will be taken by party chief Akhilesh ji If he gives me a ticket then I will definitely contest the elections he saidHe added that if the party gives him a ticket he will prefer to contest from the Pratapgarh assembly constituencySingh on Saturday joined the SP in Lucknow in the presence of party president Akhilesh YadavThe SP tweeted a photo in which Singh dressed in a crisp white kurta-pyjama with a grey Nehru jacket on top is seen standing with Yadav and other party leadersSingh said he requires double the amount of fabric as compared to a normal person to get a kurta-pyjama stitchedFor a kurta I need 45 to 5 metres of fabric For a pyjama I require around 4 metres of fabric he saidIn a tweet in Hindi on Saturday the SP said Expressing faith in the policies of the Samajwadi Party and the leadership of Shri Akhilesh Yadav today Shri Dharmendra Pratap Singh of Pratapgarh joined the Samajwadi Party In a Facebook post SPs chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said We hope that with Dharmendra Pratap Singh 46 the tallest man of India joining the party the SP will get strengthened PTI NAV DIV DIV

Lucknow Nov 30 PTI Samajwadi Party workers on Tuesday lit candles and lamps in Lucknow and other districts of Uttar Pradesh in memory of the woman from Hathras who died last year after allegedly being gang-raped In a statement issued here SP chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said lamps were lit at the party offices throughout the state to mark the Hathras kee Beti kaa Smriti Divas A two-minute silence was also observed in memory of the woman he said SP chief Akhilesh Yadav too paid tribute to the woman by lighting two candles The 19-year-old woman was allegedly raped by four men at a village in Hathras on September 14 last year After her condition deteriorated she was referred to Delhis Safdarjung Hospital where she breathed her last a fortnight after the incident PTI NAV SMN SMN