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Samajwadi Party snaps ties with Qaumi Dal

Akhilesh Yadav categorically stated that he did not want people like Mukhtar Ansari in the party'.

Lucknow: Hours after UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said at a function on Saturday that he did not want ‘people like Mukhtar Ansari’ in the Samajwadi Party, the Samajwadi Party parliamentary board cancelled the merger with the Qaumi Ekta Dal.

The parliamentary board meeting, chaired by SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav, however, said that Mr Balram Yadav, the senior minister who had been sacked for facilitating the merger with Qaumi Ekta Dal should be taken back into the ministry.

The cancellation of the QED merger into the Samajwadi Party brings the curtain down on a week-long drama over the issue and also indicates that chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, for the first time, managed to prevail over his father Mulayam Singh who had earlier approved the merger.

Earlier in the day, Mr Akhilesh Yadav categorically stated that he did not want ‘people like Mukhtar Ansari in the party’. This is the first time that the chief minister spoke on the issue and made his stand clear.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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