Samajwadi Party is planning to construct its own state office

The opposition Samajwadi Party is searching for suitable plot of land in Lucknow for constructing its own state office. The present state headquarter of the party is housed in a governments bungalow on Vikramaditya marg which used to the residential accommodation of the chief secretary of the United Province (UP) during the British period.

``The party has learnt from the bitter experience it had after the official bungalow was vacated by the party president Akhilesh Yadav in June in compliance with the order by the Supreme Court. The BJP government tried its best to malign the party president leveling baseless charges about the damage done to the bungalow by Akhilesh Yadav before vacating it’’, said a SP leader adding `` once bitten twice shy we will have our own building for the party office’’. SP chief his father Mulayam Singh Yadav and two former BJP chief ministers Kalyan Singh and Rajnath Singh had vacated their official bungalows in June following the Supreme Court order.

``We can no longer trust the Yogi Adityanath government  as this government can go to any extent to harass us  and  we won’t be surprised if we get the orders from the government to vacate the party office building, office of the Lohia trust and Janeshwar Mishra trust’’, said the SP leader adding `` the national executive of the party has authorized the party president to take the necessary action needed for party’s own office building in Lucknow and  for  various other affiliate organizations of the party.

SP sources said the national executive members were unanimous in their opinion that the BJP can be prevented from coming to power at the Center in   2019 only if the ruling party is contained in Uttar Pradesh.  `` If we fail to defeat the BJP in UP in 2019 Lok Sabha  elections and prevent it from coming to power at the Center then bleak future awaits the Samajwadi party in 2022 UP assembly elections’’,  said a senior leader of the SP.

``All the members of the national executive members were asked by the party president to give their opinion in writing about the alliance by the SP with other parties. Most of the members were not in favour of keeping the congress in the loop  while all were in favour of  alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party’’, said the SP leader.