In the midst of raging crisis in the Samajwadi Party (SP) which is showing no sign of respite, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday sacked party state unit chief Shivpal Singh Yadav – sending a strong signal that party comes first.
With the escalation of war within SP, Shivpal backed by Amar Singh and Akhilesh's camp intensified their movement against each other on Sunday morning. The supporters of Akhilesh were seen burning effigies of Amar Singh and Shivpal.
Akhilesh, with whom Shivpal is engaged in a running feud over the last few months, has already made it clear in a letter to the Samajwadi Party boss and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav that he would be proceeding on his 'rath yatra' on November 3.
The political war intensified on Saturday after Samajwadi Party (SP) General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav wrote a letter to the party workers, warning that those who speak or protest against Akhilesh Yadav will not make it to the Assembly again.
HERE IS THE RECENT TIMELINE ON FEUD IN SAMAJWADI PARTY
* AUG 14, 2016: Shivpal Yadav stunned a congregation in Mainpuri by threatening to resign citing officers ignoring him and rise in land grab cases in the state.
* AUG 15, 2016: Mulayam Singh Yadav backs brother Shivpal, warns that if he leaves party then SP will get divided into factions.
* SEPT 12, 2016: Akhilesh sacks two of his controversial Ministers Gayatri Prasad Prajapati and Raj Kishore Singh over corruption charges.
* SEPT 13, 2016: Patriarch Mulayam Singh replaces Akhilesh as the state unit chief with his brother Shivpal Yadav.
* SEPT 13, 2016: Akhilesh strips his uncle Shivpal Yadav of three key ministries
* SEPT 13, 2016: Akhilesh removes Chief Secretary Deepak Singhal (considered close to Shivpal).
* SEPT 15, 2016: Mulayam Yadav meets Akhilesh, held closed door meeting with Shivpal to defuse the situation.
* SEPT 17, 2016: Akhilesh Yadav meets uncle Shivpal, says no rift in Samajwadi Party.
* SEPT 18, 2016: Shivpal Yadav getting back all his previous and powerful ministries.
* SEPT 19, 2016: Shivpal as state party president expelled seven Akhilesh-loyalists from the party.
* SEPT 26, 2016: Gayatri Prajapati re-inducted during expansion of CM Akhilesh's Cabinet.
* SEPT 27, 2016: Akhilesh openly supported the SP’s youth leaders expelled by Shivpal Yadav and called on “experienced leaders” to reconsider the decision.
* OCT 3, 2016: Shivpal names murder accused Amanmani Tripathi as SP candidate, Akhilesh fumes.
* OCT 6, 2016: Akhilesh left red-faced after Shivpal Yadav announced the merger of Mukhtar Ansari’s Quami Ekta Dal with the SP.
* OCT 13, 2016: Akhilesh in an interview said given party’s present state, he may have to single-handedly start campaigning for the 2017 polls.
* OCT 14, 2016: Mulayam said, CM candidate will be decided by MLAs after polls.
* Oct 23, 2016: Akhilesh sacked his uncle Shivpal Yadav beside three other ministers
AMAR SINGH TIMELINE
* AUG 22, 2016: Amar Singh threatened to quit the party, alleging that he was being insulted, kept on 'mute' and sidelined following his return to the fold after six years.
* In MAY, 2016: SP rehabilitates him and sends him to Rajya Sabha.
* MARCH 2014: Joined Ajit Singh's RLD with Jayaprada and contested the 2014 Lok Sabha poll from Fatehpur Sikri but lost.
* In 2011: Amar Singh launched his party Rashtriya Lokmanch but fared poorly in the next year's state polls.
* FEB 2, 2010: Amar Singh, Jayaprada expelled from SP for 6 years on the charge anti-party activities.
* In 1996: Amar Singh switched from the Congress to the SP in 1996 and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. He remained in the Upper House for almost two decades until his recent term ended in 2014.
AKHILESH Vs AMAR
Aug 22, 2016: Amar Singh threatened to quit the party alleging he was insulted and sidelined.
Aug 28, 2016: Amar Singh got Jayaprada made senior vice-president of the Uttar Pradesh film development board and also targeted Akhilesh saying that chief minister was not taking his phone calls.
Sept 11, 2016: Akhilesh gave a miss to a party in Delhi thrown by Amar Singh to celebrate media barron Subhash Chandra Rajya Sabha's membership.
Sept 13, 2016: Akhilesh Yadav sacked state chief secretary Deepak Singhal, whose appointment to the post was influenced by Amar Singh.
Sept 14, 2016: Akhilesh hinted at "outsiders" interference behind the present crisis. Observers say "outsiders" could be a reference to Mr. Amar Singh.
Sept 14, 2016: Amar Singh refutes Akhilesh's 'outsider' comment was aimed at him. He said he wont get provoked by the media poking.
In the past Akhilesh has said that Amar Singh's hold over his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav, was "overweening and undesirable".
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