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Ajay Uprety
Ajay Uprety

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Mulayam admits crisis in SP, blames Ramgopal Yadav

PTI1_9_2017_000132B SP party supremo Mulayam Singh leaves his residence in New Delhi for the Election Commission office | PTI

Deviating from his earlier stand, Samajwadi Party patriarch, Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday admitted that there was some crisis in the party. “One person is responsible for this,” said Mulayam in an apparent reference to his cousin and party leader Ramgopal Yadav, the main architect of the coup, through which the former chief minister was toppled from the post of national president.

Mulayam admitted this in Delhi after meeting the Election Commission officials, and said that he and his son (Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav) would settle the issue. 

In yet another interesting development, Mulayam has reportedly written a letter to the chairman of the Rajya Sabha urging him to remove Ramgopal Yadav from the post of leader of parliamentary party in the upper house. Mulayam met the poll panel to stake the claim of party’s original symbol—bicycle.

The acerbity between Mulayam and Ramgopal Yadav reached its zenith after the national convention held in Lucknow on January 1. Another important player in this family feud is Mulayam’s younger brother Shivpal Yadav, who is also against Ramgoapal Yadav.

Mulayam is making last minute efforts to tighten his grip over the party. Earlier on Sunday, he unexpectedly reached the party office in Lucknow and told the SP workers to start preparation for the polls. As the workers shouted slogans, Mulayam emphatically told them, “ Don’t indulge in slogan shouting, go and prepare for polls. Everything thing will be OK in the party. I am the president.”

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