Reconciliation efforts were on ever since SP patron's death. Shivpal says followers of Gandhi, Lohia, Ambedkar & Chaudhary Charan Singh should come together for 2024 polls.
Amid another tussle with nephew & SP chief Akhilesh and reports of ‘cozying up’ to BJP, Shivpal Yadav says he’ll think about joining hands with Azam only once he’s out of jail.
Remarks follow tensions between Shivpal Yadav & nephew Akhilesh. Not invited to meeting of SP MLAs in March, Shivpal skipped a meeting of SP allies, and later met Adityanath.
Shivpal is keeping cards close to his chest, but his overtures to BJP and Yogi Adityanath have sparked speculation that he could be joining BJP. He's visiting Ayodhya soon.
Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) chief Shivpal Yadav says 2022 UP polls could be tough for nephew and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav if he 'doesn't take others along'.
Shivpal Yadav, who split from Samajwadi Party and set up his own political outfit, said he would request his elder brother and SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav to contest Lok Sabha polls on his party ticket.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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