Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls: Why cracks in the Yadav clan do not bode well for the Samajwadi Party
Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls: Why cracks in the Yadav clan do not bode well for the Samajwadi Party | India Today Insight
The rift between SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and his estranged uncle and PSPL chief Shivpal Singh Yadav will divide their traditional voter base in the upcoming panchayat poll
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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav during an interview in Lucknow, 2019 (Maneesh Agnihotri)
This year, the festival of Holi brought to the fore the rift in the Yadav clan between Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and his estranged uncle, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) head Shivpal Singh Yadav. On March 29, Shivpal decided to hold his Holi celebrations a mere 100 metres away from clan patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family residence in Saifai village in Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district, where the rest of the family had gathered to celebrate the festival.
Alleged molesters of a woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district have been accused of shooting dead her father after tormenting the family for over two years for lodging a police complaint against them.
The woman, aged 22, alleged her farmer father was in the field on Tuesday when six assailants, including the four alleged molesters, arrived in a car and fired indiscriminately, killing him on the spot. The woman alleged that she had called up the local police but received no help, just as she and her family had been mostly left at the mercy of the alleged molesters after her father lodged a compliant against them on July 16, 2018.
After being ditched by Abbas Siddiqui in West Bengal Asaduddin Owaisi, President of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), rushed to form pre-poll alliance in Uttar Pradesh.