LUCKNOW: Openly batting for the party he founded, Mulayam Singh Yadav Thursday asked Samajwadi Party workers to create a situation in which no government can be formed at the Centre without its support.
He also warned against attempts to “break” the SP, from which his brother Shivpal Singh Yadav has already distanced himself.
The patriarch is often seen balancing his relations with son Akhilesh Yadav who now heads the SP and his brother Shivpal Singh Yadav, who has floated a rival party.
Both parties organised separate events Thursday as the patriarch turned 79. They billed it as his 80th birthday, marking it as the beginning of that year of his life.
“I ask you to fix my programmes at the commissionerate level, I will be there,” he told SP office bearers, hinting at his willingness to campaign for the party.
“I ask you all to take a pledge that in the days to come, besides forming the Government in UP, we have to create such a situation in Delhi that no Government can be formed without the SP. This is my request to you,” he said at the SP headquarters where he also cut a cake.
An SP statement quoted him as saying that some people are involved in breaking up the party.
“We have to strengthen the party more. We should try to work for people and ensure that no one remains unhappy with us,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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