New Delhi: With the top leaders in the Samajwadi Party backing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in the turf war between uncle and nephew, and a series of sackings and resignations in the last one week, the fissures within the party are getting deeper and the divide more vertical.
Shivpal Yadav on Tuesday hinted at a possible alliance between Samajwadi Party and Congress-RLD, stating that SP chief Mulayam Singh is ?ready in principle? to start holding talks for an alliance with the both the parties.
UP Chief Ministerial candidate for the Congress party Shiela Dikshit however said that the grand old party hasn?t finalised any alliance in Uttar Pradesh and that no talks have taken place with Samajwadi Party.
RLD sources too denied reports of any political alliance.
Adding to the new brigade, SP?s National Vice President Kiranmoy Nanda is now backing Akhilesh, with other SP leaders ? Naresh Agarwal, Beni Prasad Verma and Reoti Raman Singh- too choosing to back the CM, sources said.
According to sources, Kiranmoy Nanda will also attend the Vikas Yatra of Akhilesh Yadav which is scheduled to be launched on November 3.
In a signal that Samajwadi Party (SP) state unit President Shivpal Yadav does not want to be taken back in the state government, headed by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, his ministerial name plate was removed by his staff from his official residence.
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Shivpal, the second most senior minister in the four-and-half years old Samajwadi Party government, was removed last week from the ministry for the second time in the last one month.
The red beacon atop his vehicle has also been taken away and he has surrendered his official vehicle to the state?s ?Rajya Sampatti Vibhag? (state property division), an aide told IANS.
The move is being seen in political circles as Shivpal?s snub to attempts by his nephew Akhilesh to broker a deal with party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, in which he had reportedly sought revocation of Ram Gopal Yadav?s expulsion from the party in lieu of the re-entry of Shivpal and three others ? Om Prakash Singh, Narad Rai and Shadab Fatima ? into his cabinet.
While Mulayam had initially asked Akhilesh to reinstate the sacked ministers, the Chief Minister refused to yield to the diktat forcing the SP supremo to tell reporters that he had left the matter to Akhilesh.
The feud in Samajwadi Party showed no signs of dying out on Tuesday with founder Mulayam Singh Yadav leaving the leadership question open irking son Akhilesh who refused to take back expelled ministers before Ram Gopal Yadav – Mulayam’s cousin and Akhilesh loyalist – returns to the party.
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