Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Shivpal Yadav Questions Credibility of SP-BSP Alliance, Says 'Akhilesh Betrayed His Father & Uncle'
Shivpal Yadav, who has floated Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (PSP) after parting ways with the SP, hit out at his nephew and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, alleging that he had deceived not only his father Mulayam Singh Yadav but also what Shivpal did for him and the SP.
Lucknow, January 26: Shivpal Yadav, former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and estranged uncle of Akhilesh Yadav, took a jibe at the former UP chief minister and current president of the Samajwadi Party without naming him in a rally by asking the people, "Can you trust such people who betray their own father and uncle?" Akhilesh Yadav had gone all out against uncle Shivpal Yadav and the crisis in the Mulayam Singh Yadav family had reached the party with two camps developing in the Samajwadi Party. Shivpal Yadav’s PSP-L Gets ‘Chaabi’ as Election Symbol to Contest 2019 Lok Sabha Polls.
Eventually Shivpal quit SP, though he was a founder member along with his brother Mulayam Singh Yadav, and formed his own party named Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia). Shivpal even said at the rally that "I did everything I could and yet I was questioned". SP-BSP Alliance Incomplete Without Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party to Defeat BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Says Shivpal Yadav.
Shivpal also targeted the recent SP-BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) coming together considering the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. Shivpal said that how can "Behenji (Mayawati) become Akhilesh's Bua (father's sister) when neither Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) nor I accepted her as our sister. " He then questioned, "what if Behenji (Mayawati) goes somewhere, what will you do then?"
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Earlier too, terming the BSP-SP alliance as a “mismatch”, former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Shivpal Yadav had alleged that the leaders of the two parties were unreliable as they both had betrayed Mulayam Singh Yadav. Shivpal Yadav, who has floated Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (PSP) after parting ways with the SP, hit out at his nephew and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, alleging that he had deceived not only his father Mulayam Singh Yadav but also the Congress party.
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