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No feuds within SP, Akhilesh to become next CM : Mulayam Singh Yadav

by IBNS 06 Feb 2017, 10:35 am

Lucknow, Feb 6 (IBNS) : Maintaining his reverse stand after months of intra-party bickering that threatened to split the party, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday denied any feuds in the organisation as well as his family, saying son Akhilesh Yadav will be the next Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh after the Assembly elections.

"Akhilesh Yadav will be the next Chief Minister. There are no differences in the family. I will start campaigning from tomorrow. Amar Singh is not upset. There is no difference. Akhilesh was given full freedom to work," media reports quoted Mulayam as saying.

The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, who recently lost the battle within the party, also said said that he will campaign for Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance.

Earlier, Mulayam had told media that he would campaign for his younger brother Shivpal Yadav first.

After that, he would go to seek votes for the candidates named by his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

"Shivpal is not miffed...no one is upset. How can Shivpal make new party without talking to me?" he said in reply to a question.

Shivpal Yadav, who has all along been with Mulayam in the bitter inner struggle against Akhilesh and his camp comprising most of the party leaders and supporters, recently said that he  will form a new party after  March 11  when election results are declared.