Amid the crucial ongoing talks among the Opposition parties for a joint candidate for the Presidents election, Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav launched a scathing attack on the Congress saying “the grand old party left no stone unturned to eliminate him from politics.’’ Congress president Sonia Gandhi had recently spoken to Mulayam Singh Yadav for enlisting his support for the joint candidate of the secular political parties.
“The alliance with the Congress in recent UP assembly elections is behind the worst ever poll debacle and the poor state of the Samajwadi Party in UP and efforts should be made to strengthen the SP. The Congress left no stone unturned to ruin my life. The Congress did its best me to frame me in false cases yet Akhilesh forged alliance with it,” said Mulayam in Mainpuri on Sunday.
“I advised Akhilesh not to go ahead with the alliance but he ignored my advice. The SP is itself responsible for its defeat and not the people of the state", said the SP patron.
Mulayam was in Mainpuri to unveil a statue of martyr Dharmendra Yadav in Junesa village in Karhal tehsil of the district.
The SP patron also attacked Prime Minister Narendar Modi and dubbed him as a “liar”. "Modi had lied to the people and promised Rs15 lakh in every account but even Rs15,000 was not given," he said.
The Samajwadi Party had witnessed a bitter feud between uncle Shivpal and nephew Akhilesh in the run up to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. Many in the party blamed the power struggle between Akhilesh and his uncle Shivpal for the Samajwadi Party's dismal performance.
The Samajwadi Party contested the polls under Akhilesh's leadership but suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the BJP .Against the claims of forming the next government the SP-Congress alliance had to suffer crushing defeat as its tally was reduced to SP—47 and Congress 7 and total 54 seats. In 2012 assembly elections the SP had won clear majority by winning 224 seats in the 403 member house. Mulayam had earlier blamed Akhilesh for the Samajwadi Party's poor performance in the UP Assembly elections and said that his son had insulted him.
Following a bitter feud between the father and the son, Akhilesh had snatched reins of the party from Mulayam and their fight also reached the Election Commission.