Mulayam Singh Yadav’s close aide and Samajwadi party vice- president Kironmoy Nanda has emerged as a ‘ Sankatmochak’ (trouble shooter) for the first family of the party. For the last days in lucknow he was busy brokering peace between the party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, so that the party is able to put up a united front for facing the 2017 assembly elections in UP.
Kironmoy Nanda had a long meeting with the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav here on Tuesday. The cabinet minister and the former party spokesman Rajendra Chowdhary was also present during the meeting. Nanda also had a meeting with the party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav here on Tuesday.
``Akhilesh should have the full authority to select candidates for the assembly elections as he is the face of the Samajwadi Party and the entire party would rally behind him,”. Nanda, a former West Bengal minister for 23 years in left front government, said that Akhilesh would be launching his election campaign soon and it could be well before the Diwali festival.
``Akhilesh is the face of youth of the state and hence the orders for the expulsion of all the youth leaders should be withdrawn immediately by the party’’, said Nanda.
“I am peeved over the dispute within the party as it was affecting the rank and file and also the electoral prospects of the party. I am trying to ensure regular communication between Netaji and the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and will do my best to ensure that the party is geared up to contest the next assembly election as a united house” .
The Rajya Sabha member, who has returned to Delhi on Tuesday to talk to other persons in the party, said the party would be celebrating the silver jubilee function of the foundation on November 5, hence it is necessary that everyone should join it and show full strength.
“If the party is not united then we are doomed and the opposition will draw political mileage and all our efforts of development oriented governance in UP for the past four and a half year would go in vain,” he admitted. Meanwhile a group of youth leaders from the Samajwadi Chatra Sabha have said they will boycott the silver jubilee function of the party here on November 5. The youth leaders supporting the chief minister who were expelled from the party in mid September said here on Tuesday that a meeting of the Samajwadi Chatra Sabha was held here in which 32 leaders attended including three legislators attended. The youth leader said that they will boycott the foundation day function in protest against the expulsion of MlCs Sunil Singh Yadav, Anand Bhadoria, Arvind Pratap Yadav and Sanjay lathar and other youth leaders.
“These leaders were expelled on fake charges even though these leaders witnessed harsh atrocities during the BSP regime,” they said in the press release which has the name of 32 youth leaders including three legislators— Udayveer Singh, Santosh Yadav and Arun Verma. The youth leaders also expressed their full faith in the leadership of the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party state unit announced to hold the meeting of the district president and general secretaries here on October 21and the state executive meeting on October 22. Both the meetings would be held at the state party headquarters, party spokesperson Deepak Mishra here said.