Shivpal Yadav Will Get Back His Portfolios, He Says All is Well in Samajwadi Party

Lucknow: More than 72 hours after the Yadav family feud escalated and played out in full public view, UP Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav announced on Twitter that his uncle and Samajwadi party leader Shivpal Yadav will get back his portfolios and former minister Gayatri Prajapati will be inducted into the cabinet.

Reacting to the development, Shivpal Yadav said that "Everything is fine now and that the party and family are united."

Shivpal Yadav was stripped of his cabinet portfolios within the UP government after he was appointed as the state president of the Samajwadi party by the SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Shivpal however resigned on Thursday evening and submitted his resignation to Mulayam and Akhilesh after he was removed from the cabinet.

Shivpal's wife Sarla too resigned from her post at the Etawah District Co-operative Bank.

After three days of hectic political parley in the Yadav family, where SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav was repeatedly seen asserting the fact that he was the boss and the final decision regarding all party related activities rests with him the truce was finally brokered between the two factions in the party.

Yadav also tried to keep a straight face while rejecting media queries about the feud between his son and CM Akhilesh Yadav and his brother Shivpal Yadav even as he met them on multiple occasions to iron out the differences.

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Earlier, addressing party leaders at SP office Mulayam Singh Yadav once again declared that he is in control and all differences would be sorted out. Sending out a strong signal he revoked the suspension of sacked minister Gayatri Prajapati and said that there would be no action against him.

Attacking some of his own party men he said "Till I am here there can’t be any internal dispute. Don’t worry and there is no dispute in the party. Someone has given an opportunity to media to say all these. Our own people have given an opportunity to the media".

He said that some of his own people are fueling the media.

Assuring party leaders he said "this election is very crucial. We have worked very hard in the past five years. Everyone has worked together. Till the time I am there, there will be no division in the party. This is our Samajwadi Party family and minor differences exist everywhere".

Before that Akhilesh Yadav also declared that his father’s words are final and there is no question of going against him.

He said "Netaji and me have decided that we will not let outsiders come between us". He also said that he would be meeting his upset uncle Shivpal Yadav at his house.

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