After Samajwadi Party's dismal performance in the Lok Sabha elections, party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav has launched fresh efforts to end acrimony between his son Akhilesh and brother Shivpal, sources in the party have said.
Over the past few days, Mulayam separately met Akhilesh and Shivpal, and the entire clan to settle the differences, they said.
The meetings have taken place in Delhi and Saifai in Uttar Pradesh.
His initial efforts have not yielded much results as Shivpal has refused to merge his Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party with the SP which he had left in August last year.