Shivpal Yadav Sacking

In a sign that efforts to get Mulayam Singh Yadav and son Akhilesh Yadav reconcile their differences ahead of a party conclave next month were headed south, the Samajwadi Party patriarch today sacked his son's confidant Ramgopal Yadav as secretary of the Lohia Trust, replacing him with his own, Shivpal Yadav.

Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav and his brother Shivpal today participated in a meeting of the Lohia Trust, during which four Akhilesh Yadav loyalists were removed as its members.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is meeting party lawmakers and supports at his 5 Kalidas Marg residence in Lucknow after his father and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, dropped a bombshell on Friday evening expelling the young chief minister from the party just ahead of crucial elections in Uttar Pradesh. He has also expelled ...

A day after his fiery speech in parliament, which featured a warning for the government that he could face the "revenge of the rolling pin", Ram Gopal Yadav has been taken back by his Samajwadi Party.

Samajwadi Party state president Shivpal Yadav today said he was dropped from the ministry as he had opposed those doing illegal work.

Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav, who was sacked from the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet, on Thursday said he never nurtured an ambition to become the chief minister and will always remain a "disciplined soldier" of his brother Mulayam Singh Yadav.

The rift in the Samajwadi Party showed no signs of ending with state unit chief Shivpal Yadav today expelling minister Tej Narain Pandey, who has been in the party for six years. Tej Narain Pandey, who is also known as Pawan Pandey, is considered close to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

There were several flashing lights today warning that the political crisis in the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh remains volatile.

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.

A day after he was sacked - for the second time - as a minister, Shivpal Yadav's attack on Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was unmitigated. At a meeting of the Samajwadi Party today, Shivpal, 61, described his 43-year-old nephew as a liar, and accused him of privately threatening to launch his own party.

As Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party appears to be headed for a split after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his father and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav engaged in an open face-off, sacking each other's loyalists Shivpal Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav called for a meeting today at the headquarters of the Samajwadi Party i...

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav today said his cousin Ram Gopal Yadav has been sacked from the party for conspiring with the BJP. His own sacking from the state cabinet, he said, was a fallout of that conspiracy.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's exercise of authority is a direct retort to his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav, who leads the Samajwadi Party and has been promoting brother Shivpal Yadav over his son.

Akhilesh Yadav deftly avoided a diving Gayatri Prajapati as the controversial Samajwadi Party leader attempted to touch the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's feet after being sworn in as a minister today. Thrice.

With Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav putting his foot down, Samajwadi Party today called off its merger with gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's party just three days after it announced the decision drawing all-round flak.

In a sign that efforts to get Mulayam Singh Yadav and son Akhilesh Yadav reconcile their differences ahead of a party conclave next month were headed south, the Samajwadi Party patriarch today sacked his son's confidant Ramgopal Yadav as secretary of the Lohia Trust, replacing him with his own, Shivpal Yadav.

Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav and his brother Shivpal today participated in a meeting of the Lohia Trust, during which four Akhilesh Yadav loyalists were removed as its members.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is meeting party lawmakers and supports at his 5 Kalidas Marg residence in Lucknow after his father and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, dropped a bombshell on Friday evening expelling the young chief minister from the party just ahead of crucial elections in Uttar Pradesh. He has also expelled ...

A day after his fiery speech in parliament, which featured a warning for the government that he could face the "revenge of the rolling pin", Ram Gopal Yadav has been taken back by his Samajwadi Party.

Samajwadi Party state president Shivpal Yadav today said he was dropped from the ministry as he had opposed those doing illegal work.

Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav, who was sacked from the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet, on Thursday said he never nurtured an ambition to become the chief minister and will always remain a "disciplined soldier" of his brother Mulayam Singh Yadav.

The rift in the Samajwadi Party showed no signs of ending with state unit chief Shivpal Yadav today expelling minister Tej Narain Pandey, who has been in the party for six years. Tej Narain Pandey, who is also known as Pawan Pandey, is considered close to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

There were several flashing lights today warning that the political crisis in the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh remains volatile.

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.

A day after he was sacked - for the second time - as a minister, Shivpal Yadav's attack on Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was unmitigated. At a meeting of the Samajwadi Party today, Shivpal, 61, described his 43-year-old nephew as a liar, and accused him of privately threatening to launch his own party.

As Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party appears to be headed for a split after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his father and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav engaged in an open face-off, sacking each other's loyalists Shivpal Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav called for a meeting today at the headquarters of the Samajwadi Party i...

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav today said his cousin Ram Gopal Yadav has been sacked from the party for conspiring with the BJP. His own sacking from the state cabinet, he said, was a fallout of that conspiracy.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's exercise of authority is a direct retort to his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav, who leads the Samajwadi Party and has been promoting brother Shivpal Yadav over his son.

Akhilesh Yadav deftly avoided a diving Gayatri Prajapati as the controversial Samajwadi Party leader attempted to touch the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister's feet after being sworn in as a minister today. Thrice.

With Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav putting his foot down, Samajwadi Party today called off its merger with gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari's party just three days after it announced the decision drawing all-round flak.