The crisis in the first family of the ruling Samajwadi Party facing a bitter power struggle deepened with the proposed rally of family patriarch and party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in Azamgarh on October 6 being cancelled. Mulayam Singh Yadav is also the MP from Azamgarh.
This was officially announced by the Samajwadi Party.
Sources in the SP said that apprehension of protest and demonstration by leaders of the party’s youth organisations against replacement of Akhilesh Yadav by Shivpal Singh Yadav as SP state president forced the leadership to cancel the rally.
SP sources said that Mulayam Singh Yadav who reached here on Friday evening held meeting with his younger brother Shivpal Yadav and minister Balram Yadav, a native of Azamgarh on Saturday. Sources said the decision about cancellation of the rally was taken by Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Shivpal Yadav on September 20 had convened a meeting of the ministers, MlAs, MlCs, district presidents of the 15 districts of eastern UP and candidates for the 2017 assembly election to review the preparations for the rally. He had asked the leaders and the rank and file of the party to deploy all their might for the success of the rally. Minister of secondary education department Balram Yadav was appointed as the in charge of the rally and his son Sangram Yadav, MlA from Atraulia seat in Azamgarh was made convener of the rally.