Disappointed with the dismal performance of the party in the recently held Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) unceremoniously dissolved its State unit and announced new office bearers of the State.
The new 10-member team for Madhya Pradesh was announced by the party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in lucknow on Wednesday.
Ashok Yadav of Gwalior has been named as the new State president of the State while Advocate Rakesh Singh Baghel of Shahdol has been named as general secretary, Rajkumar Kushwaha of Mehgaon in Bhind District has been named Vice President and RS Yadav of Sanchi has been named as the state office in-charge besides three state secretaries including former MlA Meshram, Baghel and Pawan Jain.
Besides the party leadership also changed the state president of its youth wing Yuvjan Sabha and named Ashwin Yadav as the new president of the Madhya Pradesh unit of the Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha.
RS Yadav while talking to ‘The Pioneer’ said, “The party leadership was not happy with the poor performance of the party in the assembly elections and hence opted to change the entire state body.”
Yadav further said that the new state executive would take charge of the office in State capital Bhopal on a date that would be decided in next couple of days.
Madhya Pradesh in-charge of the SP Kiranmay Nanda, party MP Chowdhry Munnawwar Saleem and a senior minister of the Uttar Pradesh cabinet would be especially present in the programme, he added.
He said that SP workers from all over the state would attend the program that would be a gala event and termed that with the change in leadership a new beginning has taken place and the new state executive would start its working by its focus on 2014 general elections.