After weeks of speculation over a widespread rift, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) showed the first signs of discontent against ally Samajwadi Party, as their party chiefs on Friday attended a dinner hosted by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. ran away.
SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar and PSP(L) chief Shivpal Yadav attended a dinner hosted by the chief minister at his official residence to welcome NDA’s presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu on Friday evening.
Apart from both, Raghuraj Pratap Singh also attended the dinner. While Singh openly declared his support for Murmu, Rajbhar and Shivpal did not declare their open support.
Om Prakash was in alliance with Rajbhar’s SBSP and Shivpal Yadav’s PSP(L). Akhilesh Yadav For UP assembly elections this year. However, after the electoral defeat, the equation between the alliance partners is not going well.
A PSP(L) leader said that Akhilesh had not invited his party chief, while CM Yogi had invited him.
“How can you be there when no one is inviting you? And how can you ignore it when someone else is inviting? Our party chief Shivpal ji will decide whether or not to support any candidate in the presidential election, however, he went to attend the dinner as he was invited for it. PSP(L) spokesperson Prakhar Singh told News18.
The meeting with CM Yogi has fueled speculation that both Shivpal and Rajbhar are likely to forge an alliance with the Samajwadi Party before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
News18 had earlier reported that Rajbhar and Shivpal were not invited by the Samajwadi Party to meet the opposition’s presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha. The only SP ally present in the meeting was Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Chaudhary Jayant Singh.
“If there was respect in the Samajwadi Party, then as you are saying, why did they not invite us? We are not invited just to offend. However, we will be with the alliance till Akhilesh Yadav ends it on his own,” OP Rajbhar told News18.
After Akhilesh’s meeting, SBSP chief Rajbhar called a meeting of six MLAs in Mau on Friday to decide the future course of action.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party sources claimed that Akhilesh was not inclined to talk to Rajbhar. The two leaders met for the last time on the day of nominations for the recently held bypolls.
After the SP lost both the Rampur and Azamgarh bypolls, the two leaders have not met and Rajbhar has been taking a dig at the SP chief since then and even said that “Akhilesh Yadav has to win elections to AC rooms.” Must go out. ,
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