Shivpal Singh Yadav. File Photo
Feeling isolated within the Samajwadi Party, former general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav on Sunday hinted at forming a new outfit.
According to SP sources, there is tremendous pressure on Akhilesh Yadav to relinquish the post of party president and hand it over to his father and SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Akhilesh’s uncle, Shivpal, would be left with no option, but to chart a separate course if he is not reinstated as the SP state president, they said.
“Akhilesh has so far not done anything to indicate that he is ready for a compromise. It seems he does not want to loosen his grip on the party,” said a senior SP leader.
“I will hold discussions with Netaji (Mulayam) and other senior leaders to decide the future course of action,” Shivpal told reporters.
Shivpal had, during the just-concluded Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, indicated that he might form his own party. “We will build a new party after the polls,” he had said.
The senior party leader, continuing his tirade against Akhilesh, said that those who disobey their father “never prosper in life”. He said Akhilesh had got everything in life without any hard work. “You cannot take the right decisions if you have inherited everything and not earned it,” he said.
The sources said that several senior leaders had asked Shivpal and Mulayam to take over the party in order to revive it in the state and boost the sagging morale of the workers.