On a day, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh was to be kickstart his outfit’s poll campaign with a rally in Azamgarh, the feud-stricken party has now convened a meeting of the state executive in lucknow on October 6.
A day later, the district and city presidents and general secretaries with be addressed by SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The Azamgarh rally was earlier cancelled due to the intra-family upheaval in recent weeks but no reason was ascribed.
Also the `Vikar Se Vijay Ki Ore Yatra’ to be led by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was to be flagged off from lucknow on October 3, was cancelled by the CM himself.
This will be the first state SP executive meeting after Shivpal Yadav replaced his nephew Akhilesh Yadav as the state president of the party.
Samajwadi Party spokesman Mohammed Shahid however said that the date of the executive meet was tentative and may be changed as Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will be busy in Etawah, where is to inaugurate an international swimming pool in Sefai and also release deer in the lion Safari of Etawah on October 6.
To be presided over by Mulayam Singh, the state SP executive is likely to discuss the strategy for the 2017 Assembly polls. Issues pertaining to electoral prospects of sitting MlAs and the announced candidates. In July, the SP chief had deputed 2 MlCs each for 18 divisions to ascertain the party’s electoral prospects in each of the 403 Assembly seats. The executive is also likely to finalise the campaign schedule of senior leaders.
Party insiders also hinted that the contentious issue of rolling back the expulsion of youth leaders by newly appointed state SP chief Shivpal Yadav was likely to figure prominently.
Soon after taking over reins, Shivpal had expelled four MlCsw and the chiefs of four frontal outfits fo allegedly ‘using derogatory language’ against the SP chief after Akhilesh was replaced by Shivpal as state SP chief. All these leaders are said to be members of Akhilesh Yadav’s core team.