In a public outburst against Akhilesh Yadav, Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday said his son had insulted him and the voters understood that “one who is not loyal to his father, cannot be loyal to anyone” which led to the party’s poll debacle.
He also said that a final view on floating a new party is yet to be taken. Mulayam laid bare his anger for the first time after the SP’s defeat in the UP Assembly election fought under the leadership of Akhilesh who had replaced his father as the party supremo following a battle of turf with his uncle Shivpal Yadav.
“I was badly insulted, which I had never faced in my life. Nevertheless, I tolerated. No leader of any party in India had made his son a chief minister during his lifetime, but I made Akhilesh the chief minister of UP,” he said in his first address in his pocket borough after the UP assembly results in which the SP got only 47 seats out 403.
Mulayam who was unseated as party president by Akhilesh just before the elections had stayed away from the election campaign, addressing a couple of meetings for Shivpal.
He had also spoken out against Akhilesh’s decision to join hands with the Congress for the assembly polls. He also went to the extent of saying “Jo apne baap kaa nahi ho saka, woh aapka kya hogaa (how can a person who is not loyal to his father, be loyal to you).”
Interestingly, the SP patron also mentioned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi during one of his election rallies in Kannauj had also echoed the same sentiment. “The public understood this statement and took it seriously. This resulted in election debacle of SP and BJP won the elections,” Mulayam told party workers.
