Yadav pari-war: Can Mulayam contain Shivpal damage to SP?

After Akhilesh’s uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav resigned from his post in the UP government and the Samajwadi party, deep cracks have appeared both in the Yadav parivar as well as the Samajwadi Party.

In the ongoing feud in the first family of Uttar Pradesh, the opening round has gone to chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. After his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav resigned from his post in the government and the party, deep cracks have appeared both in the Yadav parivar as well as the Samajwadi Party.

The Yadav family feud is a political matter, CM Akhilesh had clarified recently after he stripped uncle Shivpal of three ministerial berths. And no one will be sadder than its founder president Mulayam Singh.(Agencies)

And no one will be sadder than its founder president Mulayam Singh Yadav, whose various formulas failed to placate his brother. To save the party from an imminent split ahead of the 2017 assembly elections, he will have to take some urgent steps that do not ruffle his son and yet placate the brother.

Statements by the Yadav family on Thursday gave enough indications about their differences over Mulayam’s buddy Amar Singh. While Akhilesh and party’s Rajya Sabha member Ram Gopal Yadav hinted at action against Amar, Shivpal, who had brought him back to the party, came out in his defence.

As such, the party’s rank and file is worried about Akhilesh’s belligerent mood, fearing that he may even take the extreme step of walking the poll trek independent of his father and uncles. Close party sources reveal that if pushed to the wall, Akhilesh may take the extreme step. “After all, he has Mulayam’s blood running in his veins,” they add with pride.

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Mulayam has fought his way to the position he now holds in Indian politics. “Otherwise also, Mulayam knows how to cajole family members into agreement,” says a senior leader while insisting the party will not split till Netaji is around.

But it seems Netaji failed to bring about a truce between his brother and son.

Many are also of the view that the party needs Akhilesh, who has cultivated a popular support base, both in the party and among the public, to sail through the choppy waters just as he requires his father’s blessings to rein in trouble-makers in the SP.

In the words of a political expert, “Young Akhilesh is the future just as Mulayam is its past. We have accepted it, it’s high time the seniors too realise it. He has established his political mettle by manoeuvring his way through the chakravyuh (stranglehold) of his uncles.”

Indeed, with Thursday’s development, Akhilesh has also got rid of the tag that his government was run by his uncles.