Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) leader Shivpal Singh Yadav dismissed the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance as a “mismatch”, charging that the leaders of both the parties were unreliable as both had betrayed Mulayam Singh Yadav.
“You cannot trust people who sell tickets and who used to abuse Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav). She used to call samajwadis ‘goonde’ (hoodlums)’. Today they have come together. Can she be trusted? She won’t win many seats,” the PSPL leader said.
Shivpal Yadav, who has floated Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) after parting ways with the Samajwadi Party, hit out at his nephew and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, alleging that he had ditched not only his father Mulayam Singh Yadav but also the Congress party.
“The BSP-SP alliance is a mismatch... their leaders Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav are unreliable as they have betrayed SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav,” said Shivpal in Ballia on Saturday.
“After forming the government with the SP in 1993, the BSP had betrayed Mulayam Singh Yadav in just 17 months,” said Shivpal, while recalling Mayawati’s association with the Bharatiya Janata Party in the past.
On Akhilesh Yadav, he said that the SP president not only betrayed his father but also the Congress with which he fought the last assembly polls in UP by going ahead and entering into an alliance with the BSP, leaving the Congress out.
The PSPL leader claimed that “backbiters and sycophants have brought the party to a situation where senior leaders are parting ways with it”.
He accused SP Rajya Sabha member Ram Gopal Yadav of damaging the party and blamed him for the SP’s defeat in Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
Shivpal Yadav also gave an unsolicited advice to his nephew and warned him against trusting the BSP chief.
Shivpal referred to the Lucknow Guest House incident and urged his nephew to be wary of Mayawati, who, he said, had then levelled allegations against SP leaders including him.
“Behenji (Mayawati) had levelled allegations of sexual harassment against me. I had said at the time that I am ready for an inquiry; I am ready for a narco test. But I wanted Mayawati to also have a narco test done. She refused,” Shivpal Yadav said.
