New Delhi: As Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav made desperate attempts to broker peace among warring factions of his family, his cousin and expelled party leader Ram Gopal Yadav remained on a belligerent track, saying that the SP had no future without Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and the party supremo was “jealous” of his own son.
At an impromptu press briefing here, Ram Gopal said, “Without Akhilesh, there is no SP” and his “only aim” was to ensure that Akhilesh becomes Uttar Pradesh chief minister again. He also said that there was no question of him quitting the Rajya Sabha.
Ram Gopal had been expelled from the Samajwadi Party by Mulayam’s brother Shivpal Yadav in a tit for tat action after four ministers of his camp, including himself, were expelled from the Uttar Pradesh government by the Chief Minister. “Every father wants that his son should do better than him. But here the opposite is happening. This should not happen. This is sad,” Ram Gopal said.
He also took potshots at Amar Singh, saying it was “nonsensical” for Mulayam to say that he was saved from CBI cases. “Jadugars (sorcerers) have poisoned Netaji’s mind.”
“What is so special about the man who was himself out in the wilderness for six years. He (Mulayam) should have thought 100 times before saying that Amar Singh saved him from going to jail. It means that Amar Singh has either managed either the court or the CBI,” he said.
