Shivpal, Maurya get key roles in SP national executive

Shivpal, who also is Akhilesh’s uncle, after a long separation from the party (since 2017), reunited politically with Akhilesh during the recent Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypolls which Akhilesh’s wife Dimple Yadav won

Updated on: Jan 29, 2023, 19:21:30 IST

By Pankaj Jaiswal

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Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday declared its national executive with party chief Akhilesh Yadav as the national president and Shivpal Yadav being made as the national general secretary along with Swami Prasad Maurya.

Shivpal Yadav (left) and Swami Prasad Maurya (right) (File Photo)

Akhilesh dissolved the national and state executive after it listed Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha polls last year.

Maurya joined the SP after quitting ministership in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government ahead of the 2022 UP assembly polls.

Shivpal, who also is Akhilesh’s uncle, after a long separation from the party (since 2017), reunited politically with Akhilesh during the recent Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypolls which Akhilesh’s wife Dimple Yadav won.

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The seat fell vacant after the party founder and patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s death.

The party declared its 62-member national executive and released the list on its Twitter handle on Sunday. The others in the list include Kiranmoy Nanda as national vice president and Ram Gopal Yadan as chief national general secretary. Among the 14 national general secretaries, prominent ones include Mohammed Azam Khan, Shivpal Yadav, Swami Prasad Maurya, Lalji Verma, and Ramachandran Rajbhar. Sudip Ranjan Sen from Kolkata was made the national treasurer.

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Pankaj Jaiswal
Pankaj Jaiswal is Bureau Chief, Uttar Pradesh. He covers-analyses politics, and assists Hindustan Times reporters across the state. He has 30 years of experience in print media reporting. Based in Lucknow, he started his journalism career at a national English daily in Kanpur after graduating from Christ Church College. He joined Hindustan Times, Lucknow edition, as part of the launch team in 1997. He’s covered everything from rural distress to science, environment, wildlife, and crime. He has travelled extensively in Uttar Pradesh for rural, development, political, and election reporting. His continued interest in rural issues, rural distress, and development journalism has fetched him a handful of prestigious awards and fellowships. Pankaj is a photojournalist too. He clinched the Statesman Award for Rural Reporting—First Prize in 2009 and Third Prize in 2006—for exposing Bundelkhand’s devastating drought and distress: crop failures, farm suicides, migration, debt, and the injustice of meagre compensation cheques between Rs 10 and Rs 20 to farmers by the government from crop loss. He also has been awarded with Hindustan Times internal 'Journalist of the Month' citation over half a dozen times. His relentless reporting in Hindustan Times pulled the Bundelkhand crisis out of obscurity and forced it into the national spotlight, prompting media and government action on one of India’s most neglected regions. Over a decade, he filed hundreds of hard-hitting stories, travelling repeatedly from Lucknow deep into Bundelkhand. He also received the Special Mention KC Kulish International Award 2009. Pankaj also did long-haul political reporting on the most intense political family feud—’The Yadav Family Feud’—between 2016 and 2022.Read More