With
2017 Uttar Pradesh poll process over, all eyes are now set on March 11, when
counting of votes takes place, thus clearing the decks for the swearing in of a
new dispensation.
While,
election results would be keenly watched by all the political parties and their
mandarins given high expectations of winning the poll, UP chief minister
Akhilesh Yadav and ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has the
highest stake in the state election result.
A
victory means not only retaining power, but proving to his detractors that the
2012 poll sweep by SP was not a fluke and that he possessed the capacity and
political wisdom to win elections even on his own and without the tutelage of
his father and party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
However,
a loss would multiply his woes and give a chance to the disgruntled faction of
SP, including some in his own family, to heap the blame on him and question his
political decisions, such as pre-poll tie up with Congress and giving it 105
seats to contest, although the latter party had won only 28 seats in 2012.
Much
of the second half of 2016 calendar, SP was down firefighting internal party
and family feud. The feud culminated with the removal of Mulayam as SP
president and Akhilesh replacing him on January 1, 2017.
Recently,
Akhilesh’s step mother Sadhna Gupta, in an interview to a news channel, termed
as unfortunate the divide in family and lamented action taken against Mulayam
and his younger brother Shivpal Singh Yadav, who was blamed by Team Akhilesh
members as conspiring against the CM.
She
expressed desire that her son and Akhilesh’s step brother Prateek could become
a Parliamentarian, while asserting she would not take any more insults lying
down.
Her
utterances are a clear indication that the feud in family is far from over and
that there are several episodes to come by.
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