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Mayawati led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has pull out its support for the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) at the centre. The BSP chief Mayawati has accused the UPA of neglecting Uttar Pradesh and meting out step-motherly treatment to her party and the UP government.

Uttar Pradesh Cheif Minister Mayawati sent a letter to President Pratibha Patil and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi stating her withdrawal of support.

“There won’t be any electoral alliance neither with Congress nor with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). UPA has left the Taj Corridor case lingering against me for political mileage and its attitude to my state has been very hostile,” Mayawati added.

UPA bears support by 220 members out of 543 members of Loksabha while 17 members of BSP refused to stand by them. The Left parties, which have 59 lawmakers as a block, extend outside support to the government.

“Even after seven months the attitude of the UPA Government has left lot to be desired. Taking this, the interest of the common man and the party into perspective, we have decided to withdraw support from the Congress led UPA Government,” she said

“I personally met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and asked him to give an economic package of Rs 88,000 crore and he promised to do something about it. Till date, nothing had been done,” she added.

Tags: BSP, Cabinet Government, Congress, Mayawati, UP Government, UPA, Uttar Pradesh

Very serious and shocking news of appearing cracks in the Hamirpur village in Uttar Pradesh has been reported which left the villagers scared. There are rumors that these fissures can led to possibility of an imminent earthquake.

Officials said the geological phenomenon had occurred earlier as well but villagers are so afraid of these wide cracks in the Earth that they start leaving their houses.

“Cracks developed on walls. We fled out of the house and did not go in again,” said Hari Shankar, a villager.

“Cracks appearing on the ground are happening again. Earlier when it happened, the geologists had studied it. Now, we will again ask them to take a look into it and tell us the reasons for it. We will take precautionary measures on their advice,” said Samir Verma, district official.

The state falls in seismic zone four. Hamirpur is the place where a devastating earthquake had struck in 1999, leaving at least 103 people dead.

The cracks are appearing 450 Km away from Delhi and the fissures are still progressing leading a danger for the capital city also.

Tags: Cracks, Earth, Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh

Gujjar agitation not only affected the routine life of Rajasthan and nearby places but it charged crores of rupees to the Indian corporate sector. It is reported that companies had placed a loss of nearly 1.25 billion dollars by now due to the agitation started from May 23.

Train tracks were severely damaged while Gujjar protest which affected the train schedules badly.

Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (Assocham) President V.N. Dhoot said that their estimate of losses does not include the inconvenience caused to the passengers standing on stations and disruption to goods transfer. He said that tourism industry in Rajasthan and a few areas in Uttar Pradesh are suffered by the protest. According to Assocham, a loss of around Rs 50 billion is estimated by the gujjar agitation which pulled out the gujjars on the road.

Northern Railways spokesperson S Negi said that a loss of 7 lakh dollars was incurred by the cancellation and delay of trains on 29th May alone. Negi told that they have to delay 75 trains including 6 Rajdhani express and 23 were canceled.

Negi said,” We are planning to change the route of trains for the comfort of public.”

Rajasthan government also appealed the protesters not to trouble people. According to the estimates, around 40,000 passengers were clutched at railway stations in Jaipur, Delhi and Agra. Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje said that people faced a lot of problems by blockage of the rails and roads. Protesters had also disrupted the bus services between Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. Rajasthan State Road Transport told that around 50 buses of its transport were damaged due to the agitation. Durga Joshi, Executive Director of a government company told that services at around 60 stations were halted. This created a loss of nearly Rs 20 crores. To calculate the estimate of the loss of buses is still pending. Agra tourism, famous for Taj Mahal, was highly affected by the agitation as the protest continued here for 10 long days.

The railway spokesman said the cumulative losses incurred by the West-Central Railway and North-Central Railway will be in thousands of crores of rupees as these zones were badly hit.

Tags: Corporate Sector, Gujjar, Gujjar Agitation, India, Indian Rail, Rajasthan, Train, Uttar Pradesh

Congress president Sonia Gandhi who was allegedly outraging religious feelings of Hindus for her depiction as Goddess Durga in a poster at the party’s Muradabad office in Uttar Pradesh is issued a notice by Muzaffarpur court on Wednesday to appear in the court on June 26. Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief Rita Bahuguna and Muradabad District Congress Committee president Ajay Taleshwar Soni are also summoned along with Sonia.

A fast-track court judge Vijay Kumar Mandal ordered issue of summons to her after hearing the complainant, an advocate Sudhir Ojha. District Judge H K Srivastava had on March 25 admitted the complaint filed by Ojha against Gandhi and the others.

Mandal directed that Sonia Gandhi, Bahuguna and Soni should appear in person or their counsels on the next date of hearing on June 26. If failed to do so, the court would be compelled to take an unilateral decision.

Earlier, the court had on April 14 issued notices to them asking them to explain their position on Wednesday.

The charges were made under three sections of IPC: Sections 295 (injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class), 295 (a) (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious belief) and 120(b) (criminal conspiracy).

Tags: Congress, Court, Durga, Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Summons, Uttar Pradesh

Several North Indians left Pune back to their homes after ongoing campaign against them. Approximately 25000 north Indian workers have gone back to their homes. This situation is caused by the campaign started by Maharashtra Navnirmaan Seva (MNS) against so-called outsiders in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Production business is greatly affected due to departure of workers in such a huge number. North Indians are still frightened and many people are catching buses and trains going to north India. These workers are mostly from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Government is also concerned due to continued return of workers.

A meeting was held by District Rescue Minister Ajeet Panwar and Collector Prabhakar Deshmukh with the leaders of the inhabitants and they tried to assure them. In the meantime, local Congress MP Suresh Kalmari tried to calm down the scared north Indians.

Tags: Bihar, Business, India, Maharashtra, Politics, Uttar Pradesh