Where's The Change?

A troubled start for SP regime in UP

Where's The Change?

As soon as the Samajwadi Party was declared as the majority party, violence broke out in several areas, and the ones responsible for it, or at least some of them, have been reported allegedly as party's own members. That even a life was lost in a celebratory fire wasn't a good sign of things to come. However, the party needs to take the necessary action to maintain the popular goodwill that has brought it into power in the first place.

-The Times of India, March 22, 2012

'Why should one's family name be a disadvantage to anyone?'

Q&A


Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi are only some of parliament's youthful members - at 29 years, Hamdullah Sayeed, MP from Lakshadweep, is the youngest representative from the 15th Lok Sabha. Speaking with Amin Ali, Sayeed discussed his move form studying law to fighting elections, developing one of India's farthest locations, ignoring jibes about youth or family legacy - and recent upheavals in neighbouring Maldives impacting his constituency:


Interview - Q&A

-The Times of India, March 19, 2012

Son Also Rises

By promoting a new campaign culture, Akhilesh Yadav is modernising the SP

Son Also Rises

Akhilesh Yadav, in his UP campaign, has been involved in modernising the earlier culture that had adopted such old rhetoric as those against computers and English. The extensive use of social networking sites in order to woo the young voters "fed up with (the) old-style political rhetoric" has been commonly seen, and can only turn positive for the Samajwadi Party campaign.

-The Times of India, February 7, 2012