"I hope Narendra Modi returns as Prime Minister," Mulayam Singh Yadav said triggering an instant thumping of desks from the treasury benches.
The PSP has termed it as 'Secularism Day'.
Small traders, farmers suffering the most in Modi govt, says Mulayam Yadav in Lok Sabha.
The former UP chief minister said that his wife will not contest the Lok Sabha elections this time as his opponents have accused the Samajwadi Party (SP) of practicing 'pariwarwad' (nepotism).
Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav vacate official residences in Lucknow
Addressing the media in Lucknow on Thursday, SP national president Akhilesh Yadav said that sometimes "past incidents have to be forgotten".
Singh was referring to the black chapter of UP and Mayawati's history when in 1995 the BSP chief was forced to stay in the VVIP guest house by Samajwadi Party goons after she pulled out of the ruling alliance with their party.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the 78-year-old SP patriarch had contested from Azamgarh and Mainpuri and won both, but chose to retain Azamgarh to strengthen the party in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Mulayam Singh Yadav said repeated targeting of the armed forces by terrorists has affected their image globally and wondered whether the government was in a "dilemma" to deal with the problem of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir.
When the Ghoomar song was released, Deepika Padukone had called it one of her toughest sequences.
VHP said that family members of those killed in the police firing will be contacted and an appeal will be made to UP government as well as the court for lodging a case against Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Mulayam Singh Yadav was the Uttar Pradesh chief minister during Ram Janmabhoomi movement spearheaded by the VHP.
The father and son shared the dais in the party headquarters in Lucknow after a long spell, as workers gathered to wish the SP founder on his 79th birthday.
Besides Mulayam Singh Yadav, the name of his brother Shivpal Singh Yadav was also missing from the list of national executive members.
Akhilesh had invited his father to SP's Agra convention where on October 5 he was re-elected party president.
Akhilesh Yadav was earlier elected as Samajwadi Party President, replacing his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, on January 1.
Akhilesh has sidelined Mulayam and Shivpal ever since he replaced his father as the party chief at a national convention in Lucknow on Jaunary 1.
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