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| Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA webdesk |Updated: Oct 23, 2016, 07:15 PM IST
Crisis hit a new low in ruling Samajwadi Party with UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday taking the extreme step of sacking Shivpal Singh Yadav and three others from his Cabinet. In retaliation, Shivpal Yadav has sent close Akhilesh aide Ram Gopal Yadav from the party for six years.
The move comes a day after Udayveer Singh, a Samajwadi Party MLC, was expelled from the party for "undignified" conduct.
Narad Rai, Saiyyada Shadab Fatima and OP Singh are the other three leaders, who have been shown the door by the Chief Minister post the meeting called by him.
Barabanki MLC Rajesh Yadav, who attended meeting, lashed out at party leader Amar Singh for attempting to create friction in the Samajwadi Party.
"The party belongs to Netaji. He assigned the Chief Minister's job to Akhilesh Yadav, who managed it extremely well. He looked at both the party and family in a very efficient manner. Our fight is against those trying to create friction in the party and the one person who is doing this is Amar Singh," he told the media.
Mainpuri MLA Raju Yadav echoing similar sentiments said the Chief Minister very categorically stated in the meeting that whoever is close to Amar Singh cannot be in his Cabinet.
Udayveer Singh, one of Akhilesh's closest aides, was expelled after he wrote to SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, suggesting that he name the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister as the party's national president.
In the four-page letter to the party supremo earlier this week, Singh had said, "SP state president Shivpal Yadav and other members of his family have misled you (Mulayam) and hatched a conspiracy against CM Akhilesh, who should be made party national president and given all the powers."
"Those who used foul language against the party chief are still in the party, but those who are the real well wishers and wrote letters are being expelled," Singh said.
(With agency inputs)
SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yada held meeting on Sunday night with senior party leaders.
Jo puchna hai kal puchiyega, says SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav after meeting with senior party leaders at his residence in Lucknow pic.twitter.com/VyomRMrCUz
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 23, 2016
Shivpal Singh Yadav's letter to Ram Gopal Yadav after an official announcement was made about latter's expulsion, a short while ago pic.twitter.com/w7Axmr24Lk
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 23, 2016
Ram Gopal Yadav statement after being sacked from Samajwadi party, says will continue to support Akhilesh Yadav till he becomes CM pic.twitter.com/ehuR67Nbx2
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 23, 2016
Ramgopal Yadav, who was sacked from Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday said, "Not sad that I have been expelled from the party but I am hurt because of the allegations that have been levelled against me. It is not a crime to meet leaders from any other political party in a democracy. Whether I am in SP or not I will continue to extend my support to Akhilesh Yadav till he becomes CM. Mulayam Singh Yadav is not just my elder brother but also my 'guru' in politics, currently is surrounded by evil powers."
Samajwadi Party President Mulayam Singh Yadav calls for a meeting with the senior party leaders.
Ram Gopal expelled from the Samajwadi party and General Secy position for 6 years: Shivpal Singh Yadav, SP
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 23, 2016
He has been conspiring against me, he has been involved with BJP to save his son: Shivpal Singh Yadav, SP on Ram Gopal pic.twitter.com/eZ8ZKLJ9bx
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 23, 2016
UP CM Akhilesh Yadav must understand who is with him and who is not: Shivpal Singh Yadav, SP after being sacked from the cabinet pic.twitter.com/f6EUBFhpj9
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 23, 2016
Ram Gopal betrayed us to save his son and daughter-in-law from a CBI case, he tried to tarnish party's image: Shivpal Singh Yadav, SP pic.twitter.com/YzT1JoPlYq
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 23, 2016
Shivpal Singh addressed the media where he spoke about Ram Gopal Yadav acting against party and warned CM AKhilesh Yadav about supporting people wrong for the party.
- UP CM Akhilesh Yadav must understand who is with him and who is not.
- Ram Gopal is involved with BJP, he met BJP leaders thrice in the last few days which UP CM is not understanding. He has been conspiring against me, he has been involved with BJP to save his son who has been named in scams.
- They have created a group of goons who trouble people and create every kind of nuisance in the state.
- He has been insulting other leaders and not standing with others leaders when they faced problems. He did not even meet those who went to jail for the party.
- Ram Gopal has been expelled from the Samajwadi party and General Secy position for six years.
- He is involved with corrupt people and has always misused name of Netaji.
- We had raised this issue at various party forum
UP: Supporters of UP CM Akhilesh Yadav burn the effigy of Amar Singh in Sambhal pic.twitter.com/batE11um74
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 23, 2016
Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Yogi Adityanath too spoke about the issue. He also said that the seeming fall of the party would make sure the party was not able to loot the people anymore.
SP family feud is destroying Uttar Pradesh but if this would not have happened they might still be looting people: Yogi Adityanath, BJP MP pic.twitter.com/cLNTTlbwQS
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) October 23, 2016
Samajwadi Party's 'fight for supremacy' will benefit BJP in UP: Rita Bahuguna
Hours after Akhilesh sacked Shivpal and three other from his Cabinet, the newly-joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Rita Bahuguna Joshi took a jibe at the ongoing fight for supremacy within the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led party and said that the fallout of this rift would immensely benefit the saffron party in the 2017 assembly polls.
She said the discontentment within the Samajwadi Party has taken an explosive situation where two factions, led by Shivpal on one side and Akhilesh on the other, are vying for financial and political power in the state.
Azam Khan on SP rift: This development will neither harm nor weaken SP
Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan asserted that this development in no way affects or weakens the party.
Stating that it was the right of a Chief Minister to sack who he wants from the Cabinet, Khan told the media here that Akhilesh had made it very clear within the party, that there will be no talks of any split or bifurcation.
Shivpal Yadav addresses press conference
# We will not allow the party to break, we will form the next government.
# I am not worried about my sacking, will fight elections under Mulayam.
# CM should know who is his well wisher and who is not.
# Some people have joined hands with the BJP to save themselves from the CBI
Sloganeering in support of Shivpal Yadav at Samajwadi Party office.
CM Akhilesh Yadav should resign or prove his majority on the floor of the Assembly: BJP UP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya
Meeting between Shivpal Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav is underway
SP leader Neelam Romila Singh breaks down in front of media, says want whole Yadav family to be together.
Akhilesh Yadav supporters raise slogans against Amar Singh
Some more pro-Amar Singh ministers likely to be dropped, reports PTI quoting sources.
Ram Gopal bats for Akhilesh as rift in Netaji’s party escalates
Amid the widening rift in the party fold in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Samajwadi Party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav wrote a letter to all party workers asking them to stand behind his nephew and incumbent Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
In his one-page letter, Ram Gopal stated that the Samajwadi Party would yet again form the government in Uttar Pradesh under Akhilesh's leadership.
He asked the party workers to remain alert and positive and not get swayed by all the 'negativities' surrounding the party.
