SP national executive meeting today

Against the backdrop of Samajwadi Party’s possible alliance with Bahujan Samaj Party in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the SP would organise a crucial national executive meeting in Lucknow on Saturday.

The highest decision making body of the SP is likely to authorise party chief Akhilesh Yadav to take a final call on the proposed pre-poll alliance with the BSP and other secular parties to take on the BJP in the general elections.

However, the big issue in the executive meet will be the absence of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and his younger brother and MLA Shivpal Singh Yadav. The duo was ousted from the committee before the last such meet in Agra in October, 2017.

Though party sources hinted that Mulayam and Shivpal could be accommodated in this national executive as there are indications of a thaw in relations among family members. But Mulayam and

Shivpal are not members of national executive and there was no confirmation from the party, till date, whether they were invited for the programme.

At present, there are 55 members in SP’s national executive. Party’s secretary general Ram Gopal Yadav has written to all national office bearers, national executive members and special inviteees to attend the 11th national executive meeting which is likely to start at 1100 am.

The national executive meeting will also pass political and economic resolutions during the one-day sitting.