
BSP turncoats will only weaken SP, says Mayawati
The Hindu
Akhilesh inducts two former BSP MLAs
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Supremo Mayawati on Sunday said taking BSP “turncoats” into its fold will not help the Samajwadi Party (SP) increase its mass base and will only weaken it.
Ms. Mayawati’s statement came barely hours after SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav inducted Lalji Verma and Ramachal Rajbhar in his party at his ‘Janadesh Maharally’ in Ambedkarnagar district on Sunday.
The two leaders were earlier expelled by the BSP for “anti-party” activities.

In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












