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Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav asserted on Monday that SP is not joining the UPA government at the Centre. Addressing a press conference here along with Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam said that neither the Congress has approached him to join United Progressive Alliance (UPA) nor is he inclined to do so.
I have not requested nor will request. We are only supporting them (outside support to UPA) to keep communal forces away from power in Delhi. There is no other support, Mulayam singh said.
SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh, who steered the party to an impressive win in Uttar Pradesh, drove to the CPI(M) headquarters to meet its general secretary Prakash Karat and invite him for the March 15 ceremony in Lucknow. Akhilesh has come along with Mulayam Singh Yadav. We congratulated them for the success in the elections. They invited us for the swearing-in ceremony and we have accepted the invitation, Karat told reporters after the 20-minute meeting at the AKG Bhavan .
Today’s meeting comes almost four years after the bitter parting of ways between the two parties over…
38 years old Akhilesh Yadav, will be the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He will also be the youngest ever to hold that position. Mr Yadav’s name was proposed by senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan at a legislative party meeting today. Soon after being elected, Mr Yadav thanked UP, promised to fulfill all promises that he had made in his exhaustive election campaign and the party’s manifesto and made clear that his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav, a three-time Chief Minister himself, would play an important role. (Read: Why Mulayam Singh still matters much)
“Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) will remain…
Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday summoned Chief Secretary Anoop Mishra and DGP Atul, and asked them to control the violence and punish the guilty. Mulayam’s son Akhilesh smelled a conspiracy behind the violent incidents and said the BSP government’s “favourite officials” were trying to sully the SP’s image.
The DGP, after the meeting, said: “We have apprised them of the situation. Action will be taken against the guilty”. No one will be allowed to take law in his hand.
Chief Minister-designate Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said, that Law and order will be the priority of the new SP government in Uttar Pradesh, no discrimination will be made on the basis of caste and creed. 38-year-old Akhilesh Yadav stressed that no one involved in illegal activities would be spared.
The SP legislative party leader, who would be taking oath as Chief Minister on March 15, said all the promises made in the party manifesto would be fulfilled by the SP government. About the role of party supremo and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh said that he would remain active in…
Akhilesh Yadav 39 years old currently the MP from Kannauj, will be the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. A meeting of Samajwadi Party MLAs scheduled for 11 am tomorrow will elect Akhilesh their leader, following which he will formally stake claim to form the government, sources said. The family of Mulayam Singh Yadav has arrived at a consensus that the party chief will focus on national politics while Akhilesh runs UP.
Sources said two of the SP’s seniormost leaders — Shivpal Singh Yadav, Mulayam Singh’s brother and MLA from Jaswantnagar, and Azam Khan, MLA from Rampur — will propose Akhilesh’s name…