Shivpal may contest Ferozabad LS seat

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Shivpal may contest Ferozabad LS seat

Tuesday, 16 October 2018 | PNS | Lucknow

Shivpal Singh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party’s rebel leader who has floated his Samajwadi Secular Morcha, is likely to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Ferozabad constituency.

At present, Ferozabad seat is represented by Akshay Kumar Yadav, son of senior SP leader and Rajya Sabha member Ram Gopal Yadav, in the Lok Sabha.

Shivpal, in a show of strength, staged a road show from Jaswantnagar in Etawah district to Ferozabad on Sunday in which over a thousand vehicles joined his cavalcade. 

The road show is being seen as Shivpal’s direct challenge to the political authority of Ram Gopal Yadav, who is daggers drawn with his cousin.

Shivpal is a five-term MLA from Jaswantnagar constituency.

A large number of Samajwadi Party leaders joined the road show and many announced to join the SSM of Shivpal. 

The road show actually began at the border of Ferozabad district and terminated at Tundla.  During the whistle-stop tour of the district, Shivpal was accorded warm welcome at over 50 places.

Prominent among those who joined him were Vijay Yadav, former chairman of Ferozabad district panchayat and son of senior SP MLA from Ferozabad Hair Om Yadav, a close relative of Mulayam Singh Yadav. Azeem Bhai, former SP MLA from Ferozabad has already been appointed district president of SSM unit in Ferozabad.

Sources in the Samajwadi Party said the road show in the Yadav belt, the core area of the party, dampened the spirits of the party cadre as they were now disillusioned with the vertical split in the party organisation from state to grassroots level.

Addressing a public meeting at Tundla, the culminating point of the road show, Shivpal explained the reason for parting company with the SP and floating the SSM.

“I along with Netaji nursed the Samajwadi Party and brought it to this level from scratch in last over two decades, yet I was subjected to worst kind of humiliation and now there is no place for honest and dedicated workers in the SP and sycophants and brokers have complete sway over the party,” Shivpal said.

“I would have never floated the SSM had I got the due respect in the SP,” he added.

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