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The resignation of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar from the Legislative Council, following his election to the Rajya Sabha, has stirred a wave of sentiments throughout the state. From seasoned leaders to scholars and empowered women from self-help groups, many voices resonate with reflections on his two-decade legacy in governance and progress.

In an apparent dig at BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Samajwadi Party leader naresh agarwal today said that a person who used to sell tea cannot have a national perspective.

Rajya Sabha on Tuesday witnessed a spat between Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar and Samajwadi Party member naresh agarwal at the fag end of an impromptu debate on killing of five Indian soldiers by Pakistan troops.

The remarks by SP MP naresh agarwal were deemed by some members to be offensive towards religious sentiments of a community. The Chair ordered that the remaks be expunged from the records. Agarwal was forced to withdraw the remarks.

LUCKNOW: Tourism minister naresh agarwal on Thursday slammed the Union government for not extending the kind of help it should for the development of tourism in Uttar Pradesh.

Senior Samajwadi party leader Shivpal Yadav has criticized his party colleague and MP naresh agarwal for his "objectionable statement" about Kulbhushan Jadhav and "hoped that the party brass will take note of such nonsense”. Shivpal said this in Mainpuri on Thursday.

Samajwadi Party MP naresh agarwal on Wednesday invited a tsunami of criticism by saying that the new rape law has made senior officials and executives wary of appointing female secretaries and assistants for fear that they could be accused of rape or molestation.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday described naresh agarwal's exit from the party as "good riddance".

Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP naresh agarwal sparked a controversy over the brutal Mumbai gang-rape, saying that women needed to pay attention to their clothes to avoid being raped. Agarwal also said that women should not be too influenced by television.

KANPUR: The Akhil Bharatiya Vaishya Ekta Parishad has still faith in former power minister of the state naresh agarwal. Leaders of the Parishad charged the Bharatiya Janata Party highcommand with levelling baseless charges of corruption against Agarwal.

Akhilesh Yadav will be the chief ministerial candidate of Samajwadi Party in the upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party leader naresh agarwal said today amid a turf war in Mulayam Singh Yadav's family.

In yet another setback to the ruling BSP in UP ahead of state assembly elections to be held in February, party stalwart and Rajya Sabha member naresh agarwal on Friday joined the SP along with his son Nitin Agarwal, who is BSP MLA from Hardoi Sadar.

In a blow to Samajwadi Party, naresh agarwal, a confidant of the Yadavs, joined BJP on Monday, but immediately embarrassed his host with a “sexist” comment about Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan. “I was equated with those working in films... I was rejected for those who dance in films, work in films.

Sensing the SP leadership's "inflexibility", the Congress party had started working on its own list of candidates.

LUCKNOW: UP chief minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday dared the opposition to bring the vote of confidence, if it was at all convinced that his government was in minority after the dismissal of power minister naresh agarwal.

HARDOI: Even as terror stalks the world post-September 11, constituents of Hardoi for one are breathing easy these days. "There is no fear and no terror" beamed Sant Kumar Singh, a farmer from Chand Baheta, a small hamlet in Hardoi.

Samajwadi Party leader naresh agarwal has said that his party was completely against the Lokpal Bill. He said that his party believed that it would not make any difference to the increasing corruption in the country.

LUCKNOW: The Loktantrik Congress Party appeared heading for a split with some members of its legislature group dissociating themselves from party president naresh agarwal's decision to withdraw support to the Rajnath Singh government.

LUCKNOW: After hogging the limelight for the last four years, expelled power minister naresh agarwal suddenly finds himself in a political void.

Social media slammed the BJP for inducting former Samajwadi Party (SP) naresh agarwal into the party fold yesterday and questioned the saffron party's apparent U-turn in their opinion of him.

At least half-a-dozen political leaders, who had either left the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) themselves or had been shown the door by the party, were striped of the security paraphernalia they enjoyed while in the government on Thursday.

Samajwadi Party was unfazed on Saturday by the appeal of Rahul Gandhi for the passage of Lokpal Bill, warning it could go to "any extent" in Parliament for blocking the anti-corruption legislation.