A day after Akhilesh Yadav said his party was ready to join anti BJP alliance Samajwadi party patriarch Mulayam Singh has vetoed his son saying that SP will not enter into alliance with any other party and it was competent to fight the political battle on its own strength.
Mulayam Singh Yadav said the alliance against the BJP would serve no purpose. Mulayam Singh had also opposed the alliance of the samajwadi party with the Congress for the recently concluded state assembly elections. Mulayam Singh who was in Mainpuri on Sunday said there is no discord within the family and the party united. He also dismissed the speculations in media about his brother Shivpal Yadav joining the BJP. Shivpal Yadav had met the BJP president Shivpal Yadav earlier this week.
Mulayam Singh, the founder and patron of the Samajwadi party said Shivpal will neither join the BJP nor will float a new political party. He said that everyone will put all their time and energy for strengthening the party. He said that very soon he will enrol himself as the member of the party in the membership drive launched by the party. Mulayam Singh reiterated that there is no dispute in the party and everyone will unite during the membership drive to prepare for 2019 lok Sabha elections.
Mulayam Singh also lauded the move by the Yogi Adityanath government to open schools on the birth and death anniversaries of great personalities. On the Yogi Adityanath government he said that SP would give this BJP government in UP six months time. He said after six month the SP would launch protests against the anti -people policies of the BJP government.. He said the people of the state have given BJP the mandate and we respect it.