Our Correspondent / Lucknow
The crucial meeting of ruling Samajwadi Party, convened by Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav at Lucknow Party Headquarters ended after heated exchange and supporters of two group clashed with each other.
Addressing the highly charged meeting of party leaders including MPs, MLAs, party supremo Mulayam Singh said that he is deeply pained by the scuffle and fighting in the party which he built with hard toil. Directly hitting out at Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam said he can’t tolerate anything against Amar Singh and Shivpal Yadav.
He said Amar saved him from going to jail while Shivpal had toiled day and night for the betterment of the party. He said that he can never forget the great contribution of Shivpal Yadav. Without naming anyone, the party supremo said that some people go mad when they get post and position.
Mulayam also praised Afzal Ansari saying his family is respected one. He said that he had called Ansari for forming coalition. He said that if SP would have not made a tactical alliance with Ansari’s party, Samajwadi Party would have incurred a loss of around twenty seats. He said that he is still a strong person and has the following of all the workers of Samajwadi Party.
In the beginning Akhilesh Yadav had said that he is ready to step down from the chair but he will not float a new party. He refuted the allegation that on behest of Ramgopal or someone else he had removed Shivpal Yadav and others.