Team Akhilesh today got a new accommodation, the office of the Janeshwar Mishra Trust in the state capital at 7 Bandriyabagh near the official residence of the chief minister on 5 Kalidas Marg.
Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, the chairman of the Trust, inaugurated the new building here at a simple function on Sunday. The building is located behind the state office of the Samajwadi Party.
Even as hundreds of youth leaders and supporters of the chief minister, including the MlCs and heads of the four youth organisations recently expelled from the party were present to felicitate Akhilesh Yadav, he was conspicuous by his silence. Chief Minister instead of addressing the huge gathering only participated in the graha pravesh puja.
Prominent among those who attended the graha pravesh function were Minister Ahmed Hassan, Ram Govind Choudhury, Rajendra Chaudhary and Arvind Singh Gope and several ministers of state and the party MlAs. Rajendra Chowdhnary is the vice chairman of the Janeshwar Mishra trust. Recently SP had removed Arvind Singh Gope from the post of the state general secretary. Gope is the rural development minister in Akhilesh Yadav cabinet.
All the three expelled MlCs— Anand Bhadoria, Sunil Yadav and Sanjay lathar of team Akhilesh were present in the function along with other expelled youth leaders.
The office of the Janeshwar Mishra trust would be utilized by the Team Akhilesh for all the political activates for the next assembly election. A war room for the 2017 assembly election will also be set up here. Earlier two people from the old guards Bhagwati Singh former Rajya Sabha MP and minister of state Narad Rai were removed from the trust.
The other members of the trust include Sunil Yadav, MlC, Naimul Hasan, a close member of the Team Akhilesh also expelled from the party and Dharmendra Yadav cousin brother of the chief minister and MP from Badaun
The team Akhilesh was left with no place to operate from in lucknow as the heads of the four youth organizations and many office bearers along with 4 young MlCs were expelled from the party in September. Recently the state Samajwadi party president Shivpal Yadav had imposed a ban on the entry of the youth leaders in the state office of the party and also at the office of the youth organisations in Raj Bhawan colony.
Rattled by the barrage of salvos fired by the old guards at the youth leaders, the Team Akhilesh has now decided to pick up the gauntlet and work for the branding of their leader from the new accommodation for the next assembly election.
Major poll related activities like the designing of the preparation of the audio, video, radio, banner and hoardings will be designed and distributed from this place. A helpline will also function from the trust for helping the rank and file of the party to connect with the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
The bungalow earlier housed the office of the Chief town and country planner, was earlier chosen by the estate department to be allotted to Akhilesh Yadav as every chief minister is entitled to a lifelong accommodation in state capital. After May 2014 parliament election this bungalow was vacated by the office of the town planner. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav however selected another bungalow at 4 Vikramaditya marg, close to his father Mulayam Singh Yadav bungalow. The CM has also shifted to his new bungalow couple of days back