Samajwadi Party Tussle

Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party has released its third list of five seats for the Lok Sabha elections amid tussle with the Congress over the issue.

Ten months after Akhilesh Yadav wrested control of the Samajwadi Party from his father Mulayam Singh Yadav in a bitter tussle for power, the 44-year-old former chief minister is set to be re-appointed as the party chief for the next five years at the national convention in Agra today. Ahead of the crucial meeting that will cement his hold over the ...

Akhilesh Yadav today visited his father Mulayam Singh Yadav at his Lucknow home and invited him to a key meeting next week of the Samajwadi Party, which he now heads after a bitter tussle for power early this year. It is believed to be the first meeting between the two in many months.

Days after he had to cancel a dinner meet organised for Samajwadi Party's lawmakers, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav gave it back to his son Akhilesh Yadav, telling a gathering at a function in home turf Mainpuri that he had never felt as humiliated in his life as he did during the previous five years.

The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance which was promising to alter the political equations for assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh is in trouble with both sides calling the other's demands for more seats unreasonable.

Shivpal Yadav, recently deposed as the Samajwadi Party's Uttar Pradesh chief in a bitter power tussle with his nephew and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, has said he will contest next month's assembly elections in the state.

The bitter dispute over control within the first family of Samajwadi Party sees no end in sight as the Election Commission today reserved its order on allotting the party's symbol, which has been claimed by both party supremo Mulayam Yadav and son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Congress leader and renowned lawyer Kapil Sibal told the Election Commission on Friday afternoon why the Samajwadi Party's cycle symbol must be allotted to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and not his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, who launched the party 25 years ago. After a break for lunch, an equally heavy-weight legal team will argue be...

The tussle for the control of the Samajwadi Party ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections became literal on Sunday afternoon as hundreds of slogan shouting supporters of Akhilesh Yadav clashed with members of the Shivpal Yadav faction to take control of the party office.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's faction is likely to stake claim to the party's election symbol after his coup at the Lucknow convention, where he was named the chief of Samajwadi Party by 5,000 supporters in place of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav. Sources said his supporters would meet the Election Commission on Monday - three days ...

A day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was expelled from the Samajwadi Party by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, he has been taken back in the party. The decision was announced after the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister met Mulayam Singh this afternoon at the party chief's residence. The meeting was organised by senior Samajwadi Party l...

The ruling Samajwadi Party has two sets of candidates for assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, as a bitter power struggle between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav spills over into electioneering ahead of crucial state polls.

On Sunday afternoon, Samajwadi Party's Uttar Pradesh chief Shivpal Yadav, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's uncle, sent out a series of tweets - seemingly without provocation - suggesting that he was the boss when it came to distributing tickets for the assembly elections due early next year.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's assertion that his "family and party stand united", is being tested less than 24 hours later, with brother Shivpal Yadav announcing that an Uttar Pradesh minister has been sacked from the Samajwadi Party.

The Congress today took a jibe at the ongoing tussle in the "Samajwadi pariwar", saying that despite giving full attention to the "law and order of the family, instead of the state", things (in the family) have gone out of hands.

Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party has released its third list of five seats for the Lok Sabha elections amid tussle with the Congress over the issue.

Ten months after Akhilesh Yadav wrested control of the Samajwadi Party from his father Mulayam Singh Yadav in a bitter tussle for power, the 44-year-old former chief minister is set to be re-appointed as the party chief for the next five years at the national convention in Agra today. Ahead of the crucial meeting that will cement his hold over the ...

Akhilesh Yadav today visited his father Mulayam Singh Yadav at his Lucknow home and invited him to a key meeting next week of the Samajwadi Party, which he now heads after a bitter tussle for power early this year. It is believed to be the first meeting between the two in many months.

Days after he had to cancel a dinner meet organised for Samajwadi Party's lawmakers, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav gave it back to his son Akhilesh Yadav, telling a gathering at a function in home turf Mainpuri that he had never felt as humiliated in his life as he did during the previous five years.

The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance which was promising to alter the political equations for assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh is in trouble with both sides calling the other's demands for more seats unreasonable.

Shivpal Yadav, recently deposed as the Samajwadi Party's Uttar Pradesh chief in a bitter power tussle with his nephew and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, has said he will contest next month's assembly elections in the state.

The bitter dispute over control within the first family of Samajwadi Party sees no end in sight as the Election Commission today reserved its order on allotting the party's symbol, which has been claimed by both party supremo Mulayam Yadav and son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Congress leader and renowned lawyer Kapil Sibal told the Election Commission on Friday afternoon why the Samajwadi Party's cycle symbol must be allotted to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and not his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, who launched the party 25 years ago. After a break for lunch, an equally heavy-weight legal team will argue be...

The tussle for the control of the Samajwadi Party ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections became literal on Sunday afternoon as hundreds of slogan shouting supporters of Akhilesh Yadav clashed with members of the Shivpal Yadav faction to take control of the party office.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's faction is likely to stake claim to the party's election symbol after his coup at the Lucknow convention, where he was named the chief of Samajwadi Party by 5,000 supporters in place of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav. Sources said his supporters would meet the Election Commission on Monday - three days ...

A day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was expelled from the Samajwadi Party by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav, he has been taken back in the party. The decision was announced after the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister met Mulayam Singh this afternoon at the party chief's residence. The meeting was organised by senior Samajwadi Party l...

The ruling Samajwadi Party has two sets of candidates for assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, as a bitter power struggle between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav spills over into electioneering ahead of crucial state polls.

On Sunday afternoon, Samajwadi Party's Uttar Pradesh chief Shivpal Yadav, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's uncle, sent out a series of tweets - seemingly without provocation - suggesting that he was the boss when it came to distributing tickets for the assembly elections due early next year.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's assertion that his "family and party stand united", is being tested less than 24 hours later, with brother Shivpal Yadav announcing that an Uttar Pradesh minister has been sacked from the Samajwadi Party.

The Congress today took a jibe at the ongoing tussle in the "Samajwadi pariwar", saying that despite giving full attention to the "law and order of the family, instead of the state", things (in the family) have gone out of hands.