Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s close aide and uncle Ram Gopal Yadav today asserted that the Samajwadi Party’s leadership under the young UP CM is the real SP and that the party symbole Cycle should be allotted to them.
Ram Gopal Yadav claimed that over 90 per cent leaders are with Akhilesh. “Will submit affidavits of 4716 delegates out of total 5731. This is overwhelming majority, over 90% with SP led by Akhilesh,” he said.
Earlier Ram Gopal Yadav had said, “Out of 229 MLAs, 212 signed affidavit. 56 out of 68 MLCs, 15 out of 24 MPs have signed the affidavit, which we will submit to the Election Commission.”
Will submit affidavits of 4716 delegates out of total 5731.This is overwhelming majority, over 90% with SP led by Akhilesh: Ramgopal Yadav pic.twitter.com/dvQePtONr1
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Prima facie SP led by Akhilesh Yadav is the real Samajwadi party hence we have right over the cycle symbol: Ram Gopal Yadav pic.twitter.com/w9X9DRWZe0
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The Election Commission had demanded that for either Mulayam Singh Yadav or Akhilesh Yadav to claim the party along with its iconic symbol the ‘cycle’, each side would have to prove the number of MLAs, MPs and MLCs supporting them through signed affidavits by January 9.
Meanwhile, Shivpal Yadav met with Akhilesh Yadav at his residence in a bid to forge some kind of truce between the two sides.The months-long feud within Samajwadi party’s Yadav family hit a high note when last week Mulayam Singh Yadav expelled his son, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and cousin Ram Gopal Yadav from the party for six years.However, the young Yadav was soon re-inducted by party workers as the Samajwadi Party president.
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