Lucknow: After assuming charge as the Samajwadi Party’s Uttar Pradesh unit president, Shivpal Yadav on Sunday expelled a close relative of senior party leader Ram Gopal Yadav and another leader for their alleged involvement in land grabbing, a move that could once again fuel a war in the family.
The expelled MLC, Arvind Pratap Yadav, is the nephew of Ram Gopal Yadav. The other party man without a job is former village head in Etawah, Akhilesh Kumar Yadav. Both were fired for their alleged involvement in land grabbing and other such activities.
Mr Shivpal Yadav has also issued directives’ that all slogans must be for the party, party president and the chief minister—strictly in that order.
According to sources, there were a lot of complaints related to land grabbing and others against these two. “Arvind has been expelled for making derogatory statements against party supremo Mulayam and his involvement in anti-party activities,” SP state secretary S.R.S. Yadav said.
Earlier, before reaching the office, Shivpal met Mulayam Singh Yadav at the airport before he left for Delhi. The expulsion could fuel another war in the family as both were close to Ram Gopal. The feud in Uttar Pradesh’s first family had ended on Saturday after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav restored all but one portfolios of Shivpal Yadav and promised to support him as SP’s state unit president, a post from which he was himself removed three days back triggering the power tussle with his uncle.
