Support for Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav spilled onto the streets in Etawah as his supporters sat on a dharna.

Raising slogans like 'Shivpal Singh ko sasamman vapas lo' and 'Mulayam Singh ko CM banao', the veteran leader's supporters set up a tent at the Shastri crossing and have been agitating since last night.

Markets in Jaswantnagar -- the assembly constituency of Shivpal -- also remained closed with a protest against Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav being staged on the roads there.

The demonstration, which obstructed movement of traffic on for hours, was later shifted to the city.

Earlier in the morning morning, Shivpal's supporters gathered at the leader's residence in Lucknow and also raised slogans against party national general secretary Ramgopal Yadav who had yesterday termed Akhilesh Yadav's removal from the post of state unit president as an 'unintentional mistake' of the party.