Akhilesh anti-Muslim, Mulayam in cahoots with BJP: Mayawati
India | June 24, 2019 10:26 ISTMayawati said that Akhilesh Yadav had asked her to not give tickets to Muslims as it would result in religious polarization.
Mayawati said that Akhilesh Yadav had asked her to not give tickets to Muslims as it would result in religious polarization.
Shivpal Singh Yadav categorically said that he had no plans to merge his Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) into the Samajwadi Party.
Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav has been admitted to Gurugram's Medanta Hospital.
Mulayam Singh Yadav admitted to hospital
UP CM Yogi Adityanath meets SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav at his residence. SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Chief Shivpal Yadav also present.
The polling for the third phase is to be held on April 23 for ten Lok Sabha seats in the Rohilkhand region of the state along with 105 other seats across 13 other states.
Akhilesh Yadav, who was also present at the dais, termed the development as “historic”.
Preparations are underway for the rally at Christian Field to send out a message to our political opponents that the alliance against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh shares a strong bond, an SP party leader said.
Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati have been bitter rivals since 1995 when SP cadres allegedly attacked the state guest house where the BSP chief had been camping with her supporters.
Adityanath also deprecated Akhilesh Yadav's step of forging a poll alliance with his father's arch rival BSP supremo Mayawati, terming the coalition as one "aimed at usurping power".
The list carried the names of party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Azam Khan, Dimple Yadav and Jaya Bachchan among others, besides Ram Gopal Yadav himself.
Burying her 25-year-old bitter feud with Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati will seek support for him at an election rally in Mainpuri on April 19, SP spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said on Friday.
The party later announced that SP chief Akhilesh Yadav's wife, Dimple Yadav, would contest from Kannauj, where she is the sitting MP.
The list was signed by SP national chief general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav.
"What Mulayam Singh Yadav ji said in the Lok Sabha is true and truth always wins, I am confident that his son will also accept this," Yogi Adityanath said.
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