He had taken over the reins of the party in 2017 but it is now that he will have to take on the responsibility of the family too.The passing away of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh has increased the burden manifold on the frail .
Uniindia: Lucknow, July 16 (UNI) Pragatisheel Samaj Party (PSP) president Shivpal Singh Yadav on Saturday claimed that presidential candidate of the opposition parties Yashwant Sinha once called Mulayam Singh Yadav as an agent of Pakistan s intelligence agency ISI and appealed Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav to reconsider his decision to support him.
In the recently-held Assembly elections, he may have more than doubled the number of seats his party had won in 2017 and the vote percentage also spiked one and a half times, but the challenges that lie ahead for the 48-year-old leader have also increased manifold. The biggest challenge for Akhilesh in the coming months would be to keep his party together.
In October 2016, while flagging off the "Samajwadi Vikas Rath", the trio were seen together in public the last time. On Thursday, the trio once again campaigned together. Shivpal and Akhilesh had a fall ou in 2016 following which the former started his own party