Samajwadi Party has asked the leaders of the youth organisations of the party to gear up for the success of the debut rally of the party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav at Ghazipur on November 23. The ruling party has particularly asked the office bearers of the Samajwadi Yuvjan sabha to work for the success of the rally. SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will formally kick off the party’s poll campaign from Ghazipur.
With the rally SP will also formalise the merger of the mafia don Mukhtar Ansar’s led Quami ekta Dal with itself. SP had announced the merger of the QED in June last. The merger was revoked following the stiff opposition to the political move by the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. The merger issue was however settled in October last.
SP state president on Tuesday presided over a meeting of the office bearers of the Yuvjan sabha and asked its office bearers particularly in east UP districts to mobilise people for the rally. He inquired from the office bearer and the district president of the Yuvjan about the number of buses to be mobilised from their respective districts. Besides the Abhishek singh Ashu, the newly appointed president of the Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha, the district and city president of the youth organ isation were present in the meeting.
On Monday Shivpal yadav had held a meeting with the party legislators and ministers from east UP districts for the review of the m preparations for the rally. The ministers and MlAs were asked to mobalise maximum number of people from their respective constituencies. SP state president has also called the meeting of the Samajwadi mahila Sabha here on November 17 in connection with the rally at Ghazipur.
Mulayam Singh Yadav was scheduled to launch the party’s poll campaign with a rally in Azamgarh on October 6. The rally had to be postponed due to the family feud. The rally in Ghazipur is crucial for the SP as the prime minister narendra Modi had addressed a huge rally in Ghazipur on November 14. All other parties are ahead of the Samajwadi party in their campaign for the next state assembly elections. Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has so far addressed five big rallies in Agra, Azamgarh, Saharanpur, Allahabad and lucknow. The Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had also conducted a month long Kisan Yatras in UP in September. The ` Parivartan yatra by the BJP are also criss crossing the state. BJP president amit shah has addressed several rallies in the state in Jhansi and Kannauj.