This Article is From Oct 24, 2016

Tears, Then Shouting: Akhilesh Yadav And Mulayam Singh Yadav Stay Divided - For Now

Akhilesh Yadav made an emotional appeal to his father Mulayam Singh Yadav at the SP meet

Lucknow: Red-hot emotions on display at the Samajwadi Party meeting on Monday saw Akhilesh Yadav transiting from tears to a public showdown with his father and party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.

"You took me to these heights...Where do I go from there?" the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said, choking up more than once as he addressed party leaders, mostly his father, at the meeting in Lucknow that morphed into heavy-duty Yadav family drama.

"If you want to remove me then do so but no outsider should be here...If you had told me to resign, I would have gone," said the 43-year-old, alleging a conspiracy against him and implying that his uncle Shivpal Yadav - whom he sacked as minister on Sunday for the second time in a month - and Amar Singh were its chief architects.

"Netaji (Mulayam Singh), you taught me to fight against injustice. Why should I form a new party? This is also my responsibility - if anyone is involved in a conspiracy then we have to fight them," he said.

His passionate entreaty apparently missed its mark as Mulayam Singh later said: "I can't leave Amar Singh or Shivpal Yadav. All of Amar Singh's sins are forgiven...he saved me from going to jail." Yadav senior added on Shivpal: "I cannot forget the work done by Shivpal."

Akhilesh Yadav sounded angry and wounded after listening to his father siding with his detractors and admonishing him publicly. He turned to the gathering and said that he had been compared to a cruel Mughal emperor: "Amar Singh planted news that I am Aurangzeb and Mulayam is Shahjahan."

Shivpal Yadav suddenly appeared by his side and snatched the mike, shouting: "Your Chief Minister is lying!"

Akhilesh Yadav's act of firing his uncle for the second time was seen as a direct challenge to his father, who has steadily supported his younger brother Shivpal over him.
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