Shivpal Yadav had blamed Akhilesh Yadav for the party's losses in the UP Assembly and Lok Sabha polls.
In a development confirming the split within the Samajwadi Party (SP), senior Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav on Friday declared that he was forming new political party named Samajwadi Secular Morcha, which would be headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav.
"Neta ji ko unka sammaan vapas dilane, aur Samajawadion ko ek saath laane ke liye is morche ka jald hi ailaan hoga," he told ANI. (To give Netaji his position back, and unite people of Samajawadi, Samajwadi Secular Morcha to be declared soon)
Neta ji ko unka sammaan vapas dilane, aur Samajawadion ko ek saath laane ke liye is morche ka jald hi ailaan hoga:Shivpal Yadav to ANI
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) May 5, 2017
Shivpal will soon be meeting state and national level leaders regarding the same. The party will also include minorities, farmers and youth.
On Wednesday, Shivpal Yadav blamed SP chief Akhilesh Yadav for the party's losses in the UP Assembly and Lok Sabha polls, and had said that he would form a new front unless the reins of the organisation were handed over to Mulayam Singh Yadav. He had also claimed that corrupt persons and officials had joined hands with the government during the previous regime when Akhilesh was the chief minister and the same thing was happening in the present dispensation.
Earlier in April, Shivpal had asserted, that Akhilesh should first unite the party and the family. "He should unite the whole family and the party. He should fulfill what he had said. He should fulfill his moral duty. Akhilesh should now embrace Mulayam Singh as the national chief of the party again," said Shivpal.
Mulayam had also blamed Akhilesh for the Samajwadi Party's poor performance in the Assembly Elections and said that his son had insulted him and the voters understood that "one who is not loyal to his father, cannot be loyal to anyone" which led to the party's poll debacle. "I was badly insulted, which I had never faced in my life. Nevertheless, I tolerated it. No leader of any party in India had made his son a chief minister during his lifetime, but I made Akhilesh the Chief Minister of UP," he said.
The Samajwadi Party had witnessed a bitter feud between uncle Shivpal and nephew Akhilesh in the run up to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in which it was drubbed by the BJP. Following the bitter feud between the father and the son, Akhilesh had snatched reins of the party from Mulayam Singh and their fight also reached the Election Commission.
The Samajwadi Party got only 47 seats out 403 in the Uttar Pradesh elections.
(With agency inputs)
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