Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said that he will not form a "new party" and will remain with Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav while addressing party office bearers, legislators, and supporters at the SP headquarters on Monday.
"People are saying a new party will be formed. Who is forming this new party? I am not," Akhilesh Yadav said, while addressing the party supporters at SP headquarters.
"If Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) had asked me to resign I would have resigned," he said.
He also accused people of creating confusion among the senior leadership.
The Chief Minister assured that if someone was conspiring against the party or the party chief then he would initiate action against him.
Akhilesh in his speech struck an emotional pitch at the crucial party meeting in the presence of his father and SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav calling him his "guru" and assuring that he could never split the party.
In an emotional speech Akhilesh Yadav mentioned how he had fulfilled the promises made by his father Mulayam Singh by completing all projects on time.
Akhilesh also said he was ready to quit if his father asked him to and if it sorted the impasse in the ruling party.
In a choked voice, the Chief Minister said he has always obeyed the SP chief and he was very thankful that his father had given him such dizzying heights in the party.
The 43-year-old, however, pointed at a conspiracy against him by some with vested interests and rued that his uncle Shivpal was also part of it.
"I have done everything for the betterment of the party and my government has worked for all-round development of Uttar Pradesh and I will continue to do that," he said.
He highlighted various development projects like the Lucknow Metro and the Agra-Lucknow Expressway which would be inaugurated on Netaji's (Mulayam Singh) birthday in November.
Trashing reports and speculation that he was anti-Mulayam, he said he had never done anything which was against party interest and had always ensured that every problem was addressed to Netaji either through letters or personal meetings.
In an important disclosure, Akhilesh referred to the sacking of minister Gayatri Prajapati in September as a decision taken on the behest of Netaji.
"Even Chief Secretary Deepak Singhal was removed on Mulayam Singh's order and I had even tipped off the top bureaucrat to go and beg for forgiveness," Akhilesh said.
Earlier on Sunday, in a dramatic tit-for-tat events in ruling SP, Akhilesh Yadav had ousted his uncle Shivpal Yadav and three others from the government, while the party brass retaliated by sacking SP General Secretaey Ram Gopal Yadav for six years.
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