Anyone with known allegiance to Shivpal Yadav is unwelcome at SP headquarter

LUCKNOW: Anyone with known allegiance to Shivpal Yadav is unwelcome at 19, Vikramaditya Marg, the headquarters of Samajwadi Party.

SP state secretary Raghunandan Singh Kaka realised this on Monday when he was not allowed to enter the office. Kaka claimed he had been asked to enter by “SP state chief Shivpal.” He even sat on a chair on dharna outside the main gate for an hour, but to no avail. It became difficult for Shivpal’s men to enter the office ever since Akhilesh Yadav’s supporters took over the office after anointing him as SP national president and Naresh Uttam as the state chief. Uttam has, however, decided not to sit in Shivpal’s room.

ET found both Mulayam and Shivpal’s rooms were locked. Partymen said both the leaders did so after paying a surprise 30-minute visit together here on Sunday morning before leaving for Delhi. This was their first visit here after being removed from their respective posts on January 1. A leader said Mulayam sat in his room on Sunday. “Netaji’s nameplate is still there. Shivpal’s was removed from his room last week, but restored a day later,” an Akhilesh supporter said.

On Monday, cameras of mediamen and mobiles of party workers weren’t allowed inside the gate. A Shivpal supporter was heard telling a cop: “Ek seat nahi milega char Yadav zilon (districts) mein Akhilesh ko akele... Mulayam 30 saal se mehnat kar rahen hain.” “Netaji speaks sense when alone, and another thing when with Amar Singh,” retorts an Akhilesh supporter. The situation was summed up by SP’s Azam Khan on Monday: “There is lot of fog...but not yet dark.”