Akhilesh shuns Mulayam offer, won't give up SP president post

January 11, 2017 09:45

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav would not step down as the Samajwadi Party president, at least not till the election was over, sources said, dealing another blow to hopes of reconciliation in the faction-riddled party.

Akhilesh conveyed the decision to his father and party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, during a meeting on Tuesday morning, nine days after he staged a coup to take control of the party from his father.

Mulayam had extended an olive branch to his son on Monday night when he told media that Akhilesh would be the party's chief ministerial candidate.

It was a climb down from his earlier statement when he told media the party would go into polls without a CM candidate, a public snub to Akhilesh.

According to sources, he also turned down Mulayam's offer that both the factions withdraw applications submitted to the election commission, staking claim to the party symbol a bicycle.

Mulayam, said sources, was ready to give Akhilesh a free hand in deciding poll candidates, a big reason for chief minister's running feud with his uncle Shivpal Yadav that is tearing the party apart.

While Mulayam agreed to keep Shivpal, his younger brother, and Amar Singh out of the election, he was firm on not accepting the Akhilesh faction's decision to throw Singh out of the party.

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