Shivpal Yadav resigns from UP cabinet, Akhilesh refused it, Shivpal Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav, SP chief, Mulayam Singh
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- Last Updated: Friday, 16 September 2016 10:28
Shivpal Yadav resigns from UP cabinet, Akhilesh refused it, Shivpal Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav, SP chief, Mulayam Singh
Shivpal Yadav, the brother of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, on Thursday evening tendered his resignation from the Akhilesh Yadav cabinet and from all the party posts he holds. However, UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has refused to accept the resignation. The drama happened on an evening that saw party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav+ get into firefighting mode in a bid to sort out the feud between his brother and his son.
- On Thursday, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh came down from Delhi in a bid to find a solution to the crisis. Though he is living in the same house with the Chief Minister, it is not known if the two have met.
- Mulayam Singh has already met Shivpal, his favourite brother, twice, to hear his part of the story. On Wednesday, Shivpal had rushed off to Delhi for a four-hour meeting. The two met again this afternoon after Mulayam Singh reached Lucknow.
- The rift within had been growing for months but the crisis came on Tuesday, hours after Mulayam Singh removed Akhilesh as the state party chief and appointed Shivpal. The move was widely seen as a punishment for the Chief Minister's run-in with Shivpal.
- Late on Tuesday evening, the Chief Minister had divested Shivpal Yadav - a key minister in the state government - of all his crucial portfolios, leaving him with only the social welfare ministry.
- Many party leaders believe that Amar Singh is in league with Shivpal Yadav in a plan to turn Mulayam Singh against his son. It is also believed that he had engineered the shifting of Akhilesh Yadav from the post of the state party chief.
- The feud, five months before the elections has drawn opposition jibes. The Chief Minister, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said, was trying to change the image of his government by "replacing tyres of his damaged cycle" but it was too late.