Amid ongoing power struggle within the first family of the ruling samajwadi party, the party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav said here on Sunday that ``there was no dispute in the party’’. SP is heading for vertical split as both Mulayam and Akhilesh factions have filed their respective claim on the party and its election symbol before the Election commission. Both the factions are waiting for the order of the Election commission which is likely to formalise the split in the party.
He said he is the national president of the party, Akhilesh Yadav is the chief minister and Shivpal Yadav is the state president of the party’s patriarch asserted that the national convention of the party held here January 1, was illegal and unconstutional and quorum was also incomplete.
Mulayam Singh on Sunday morning reached the state office of the party along with his younger brother Shivpal Yadav and met the party workers. When asked about the ongoing feud in the party he said ``Hamari party me koi vivid nahi hai (there is no dispute in our party). Mulayam Singh also addressed the party workers in the [arty office asking them to stop raising slogans and its election time so go back to their respective assembly constituency and work for the victory of the party.
Mulayam Singh reached the party office and went to his room –of the national president and met some leaders. In a surprise move Mulayam Singh reinstalled his name plate as national president of the party and Shivpal Yadav as the state president of the party. The name plate of Shivpal described him as cabinet minister of PWD, irrigation and social welfare department. Mulayam Singh called Jagjivan Prasad, the OSD to the chief minister and got both the rooms locked and the kept the keys in his pocket. Mulayam Singh later left for Delhi along with Shivpal Yadav.
SP sources said Mulayam Singh came to the party office with a specific purpose where he got installed his name plate and that of his younger brother and the process was photographed and also video graphed. ``It was done by Mulayam Singh to create an evidence to be filed before the Election Commission that he was not only the national president of the party but the state office of the party was also in his possession’’, said a SP leader.
The Akhilesh camp however sought to play down the event saying ``it was a matter of pride for us that our patron and guardian visited the party office’’.
``No name plate in the state office of the party was removed after the election of Akhilesh Yadav as the national president of the party on January1 and no new name plate was installed on Sunday’’, said Udaivir Singh, SP MlA and a important member of the team Akhilesh.
Soon after Mulayam Singh left for Delhi, the newly appointed state president of the party naresh Uttam along with hundreds of supporters of the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav reached the state office of the party. Naresh Uttar met the party leaders who had arrived here from different districts.