In an apparent climb down after six days of crisis in the party, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav met his uncle and state president of the Shivpal Yadav at his official residence on Kalidas marg here on Saturday. Shivpal Yadav was appointed as state president in place of Akhilesh Yadav on September 16 triggering a crisis in the party.
`` I had gone to the residence of my uncle not to the place of state president of the party. All in the party will abide by the direction of the party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’’, said the chief minister addressing a press conference here on Saturday after meeting his uncle Shivpal Yadav. `` I had only tea there not the lunch’’, chief minister added.
`` I congratulate the new state president of the party. Today I suddenly remembered that I am the national in charge of all the four youth organisations of the party’’. Replying to a question Akhilesh Yadav said `` do not many question on this issue otherwise I may also be stripped of this post’’.
Asked whether he still insists that he should have a say in the allocation of the party tickets for the next assembly elections , chief minister said `` `` We are going to face a big test in few months and I can at least tell the party president about my preference of candidate for the particular seats’’.
Issuing a stern warning to the youth organisation of the party Akhilesh Yadav said m `` you must refrain from raising slogans, putting posters, banners and hoardings, its election time and go back to your respective constituencies and work for mobilising the people at then polling booth level’’.
Chief Minister also announced that the proposed `Vikas Se Vijay Yatra’ from October 3 has been postponed. ``OnOctober 4 I will lay the foundation stone of the metro rail in Kanpur and the dates of Yatra will be worked out after consulting the astrologers as to which direction one should on a particular day’’.
Claiming that the Samajwadi party will form the next government in UP and win more seat than won in 2012, chief minister said `` in 2012 elections we had made only promises in our election manifesto and nothing was done on the ground. This time in 2017 polls we will go to the people with confidence as we have not only fulfilled all the promises, we have delivered what was not mentioned in manifesto of 2012’’.
``There was no mention of metro rail project in lucknow, Kanpur, Ghaziabad, NOIDA and Samajwadi pension. Yet we worked on all these projects and translated them on the ground’’, said the CM adding `` politics is not a game but it’s a serious business’’
``There could be different opinion on the number of seats in 2017 Samajwadi party will be on number one and form the government. In 2012 none expected clear majority for the SP and poll survey gave us only 140-150 seats yet we got majority even as the there was no mention of many development projects in our election manifesto’’, said the CM.
Dismissing the dispute in the party hogging the media headlines chief minister said `` recent events have given an opportunity to our political opponents to take pot shot at us , Samajwadi always fight but they also remain united’’.
Akhilesh Yadav also narrated a detailed list of achievements of his government and said the people particularly the rural folk be apprised of the work done by the government for the agriculture, marketing of the agriculture produce , dairy , infrastructure and fresh investment for boosting the growth rate of the state’s economy. He said even as the Union government refused to give any financial assistance for aiding the farmers whose standing crop was damaged due to hailstorm and unseasonal rains chief minister said `` state government distributed a relief of Rs 5,000 crore from its own resources and Rs 2,000 more will be disbursed during the remaining part of the current financial year 2016-17’’.