Bal Thackeray pesters Giani Zail Singh for a cricket bat and is asked by Manmohan Singh to focus on his studies instead. It’s not an all-party meeting of politicians from the present and the past. The scene is being played out at the home of Mithai Lal, 57, in a village called Hyderabad under Jalalpur assembly constituency in Ambedkar Nagar. Mithai Lal, a farmer, named his
The Samajwadi Party is encouraged by the entry of several BSP leaders and reckons that its Muslim-Yadav-OBC vote calculus needs a sprinkling of Dalit votes to score victory in the 2022 assembly election