Two days after the Samajwadi Party had withdrawn lal batti status from 36 Minister of State rank leaders, party dissolved its State executive and other 15 cells but spared Akhilesh Yadav who will continue to be the State president.
Party’s spokesman Rajendra Chaudhry said with the permission of Mulayam Singh Yadav the party State executive, barring State chief Akhilesh Yadav, has been disbanded.
“The 15 cells associated with the party and their executive including presidents have been dissolved on the directions of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav,” Chaudhry who is also Jail Minister in the Akhilesh Yadav Government said.
Chaudhury said that the new party State executive and its attached organisations would be revamped and constituted very soon.
The the party unit was forced to drastic steps after ignominious performance of the party in the just concluded lok sabha elections in which the party could win only 5 seats — all the winners were the members of the Yadav clan. Mulayam Singh won from Mainpuri and Azamgarh, Dimple Yadav from Kannauj, Dharmendra Yadav from Badaun and Akshay Yadav from Firozabad.
In 2009 lok Sabha elections the party had won 21 seats.
The performance was so bad that even Ministers and the Speaker of the UP Vidhan Sabh lost their elections. Three of the Ministers, including Abhishek Mishra, even lost their deposits. Even the top party leaders failed to win elections in their villages. According to the Vidhan Sabha wise analysis, the SP won only in 42 Assembly segments which indicate anti-SP wave.
“The party leadership is trying to fathom the damage lok Sabha has done to the party. Elections are like sport — sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. One should not feel disheartened by the result,” Chaudhry said adding Mulayam Singh Yadav is trying to boost the morale of the party workers.