AMN
Samajwadi Party has reelected Akhilesh Yadav as its President for next five years. It has been announced at Party’s national convention today at Agra. Party General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav made the announcement and said that the election has been done unanimously. Party’s convention begun yesterday at Agra.
As he was addressing a press conference a day ahead of the party’s national convention, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister was asked about reports that his uncle had called him up.
“I got the benefit of my age and our relation. He [Mr. Shivpal] gave his blessings and congratulated me,” Mr. Akhilesh said.
The party had witnessed a bitter feud between Mr. Akhilesh and Mr. Shivpal and this infighting adversely affected the party in the Assembly polls earlier this year.
Mr. Akhilesh recently dropped enough hints that there was no likelihood of any reconciliation with his warring uncle when he cautioned partymen to beware of “fake samajwadis“.
“But it has opened the eyes of samajwadis. Now they will not succeed,” he recently said in Lucknow in an apparent attack on Mr. Shivpal, though he did not take his name.