TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Concerned over the debilitating power struggle in Samajwadi Party, the Mulayam Singh Yadav- Shivpal Yadav camp today continued efforts to cobble together a grand alliance in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, with the latter meeting RLD chief Ajit Singh.
Shivpal, who heads the Uttar Pradesh unit of the party, called on Ajit Singh, whose Rashtriya Lok Dal has areas of influence in western parts of the state, apparently to invite him to SP’s silver jubilee celebrations on November 5. The meeting came against the backdrop of talk of attempts at replicating Bihar’s grand alliance experiment in UP.
Shivpal had recently pitched for coming together of ‘Lohiawadi’, ‘Charan Singhwadi’ and ‘Gandhiwadi’ forces to defeat the “communal” BJP in the assembly polls due early next year. Samajwadi Party, which was initially part of Bihar’s grand alliance, had walked out of it after it was offered only a handful of seats to contest the assembly elections there.
The grand alliance of Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal and Congress had, however, scripted a glorious electoral victory, defeating the BJP-led NDA. Shivpal Yadav had recently blamed his estranged cousin Ram Gopal Yadav for Samajwadi Party’s decision to walk out of the alliance in Bihar.
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