Playing down the news about sulking Shivpal Singh Yadav, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party president Om Prakash Rajbhar said that the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) chief was a part of the alliance and would remain in the alliance in future too.
“There is news about Shivpal Singh Yadav claiming that he is angry and will leave the Samajwadi Party alliance. This is all false news. He is still part of the alliance and will remain so,” Rajbhar told reporters here on Thursday.
He said that SP, SBSP and PSPL would contest the next Lok Sabha elections together. “He is part of the family and all kinds of things happen in a family. Shivpal Yadav was angry even before the election and there is nothing new,” Rajbhar said.
When specifically asked whether Shivpal Yadav would be joining Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajbhar said that he had candid discussions with Shivpal Singh Yadav and he was not joining any party. “You journalists speculate too much. No one is going anywhere,” he said. After Akhilesh Yadav was elected leader of the opposition in the UP assembly, the political grapevine was pregnant with rumours that Shivpal Yadav would be joining BJP. The rumours got further credence after Shivpal Yadav dissolved all the executive committee of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) after his meeting with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Some political pundits even predicted that he would be joining the BJP by the end of this month.
“You read too much between the lines,” Rajbhar said. On the issue of bulldozer, he said that shanties of the poor were being demolished while the actual guilty had been given political patronage.
“Through this bulldozer drive attention is being diverted from the real issues of inflation and unemployment,” Rajbhar said.