Samajwadi Party family feud: Work begins on grand alliance in Uttar Pradesh

LUCKNOW: SP leader Shivpal Yadav has said his outfit was willing to make adjustments to rope in all ‘socialist and secular forces’ for an alliance in the forthcoming assembly polls to UP. Yadav, who was in New Delhi in the last two days, has invited former PM Deve Gowda (JDS), Nitish Kumar, Sharad Yadav and KC Tyagi (JD-U), RLD chief Ajit Singh and leaders of RJD, INLD and Congress for the SP’s silver jubilee celebrations.

“I am willing to step down from the state chief post also. Even some former Samajwadi leaders who were neglected will be brought back. We will not let communal forces to come to power in UP,” he said in Lucknow on Thursday. Yadav is working overtime to ensure a grand presence of socialist belonging to various parties and states for the silver jubilee celebrations of the Samajwadi Party to be held in Lucknow on November 5. The function is expected to send out strong signals on the formation of a grand coalition on the lines of the Bihar grand alliance.



He also took a pot shot at expelled SP general secretary Ramgopal Yadav. “I will now be careful of intellectuals and think tanks. They damaged the party a lot, while enjoying all benefits. I have toured UP more than these leaders, who are claiming victory again.” Shivpal said that those who wanted to profit and indulge in corruption would be shown the door and the party would be run only on ‘socialist credentials.