Mulayam Singh Yadav used his first rally in his homestead of Etawah - in the Jaswantnagar constituency of his brother Shivpal Singh Yadav - to ask for votes from the adjoining Etawah Sadar seat not for the candidate from his Samajwadi Party but from rival Lok Dal, a small local party which currently has no seats in the state legislature. With that petition, Mulayam Singh has made it clear that his son, Akhilesh Yadav, can count on his continued needling as he asks for a second term as Chief Minister.