Lok Dal has has offered its symbol to embattled Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav to contest the UP elections in case the cycle symbol is frozen by the Election Commission due to feud in the party.
Party president Sunil Singh said he had met Mulayam Singh and offered him to contest the elections on his party symbol – farmer ploughing the field.
Asked whether he discussed any modalities with Mr. Yadav, Mr. Singh said he is a senior socialist leader and he is free to be the party president. Lok Dal is a registered, unrecognised party which Sunil Singh claimed was formed by socialist leader Charan Singh in 1980.