Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who had stripped his uncle Shivpal of key portfolios after SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav made him state unit chief, had yesterday blamed an "outsider" for the crisis.
Speaking in the same vein, party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav also hit out at Amar Singh after his meeting with Akhilesh today, though he refrained from naming the Rajya Sabha MP.
"If everyone becomes intelligent, all of them will be CM or netaji. Everyone cannot be Akhilesh or Mulayam," he told reporters at his residence.
Earlier in the day Ram Gopal Yadav was riled by questions on Amar Singh.
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"There is nothing like mulayamwadi..If someone is not Samajwadi, how can he be mulayamwadi," he said in response to queries on Singh, who was expelled in 2010 and rejoined the party a few months ago
"You also know this. Those who have nothing to do with party's interest take benefit of simplicity of netaji.... They harm the party.... All those who met me are saying so," he said.
"He is the same person, who used netaji's simplicity to make an incharge of the party (Shivpal was earlier made SP UP incharge). There is no such post in SP. They say you are being challenged.....There is no one in the party who can challenge netaji," Ram Gopal Yadav said.
Asked about losing important portfolios, he said, "I cannot raise questions on which circumstances the Chief Minister has changed my departments. It is his discretion."
"I have a big responsibility. It is bigger than getting portfolios. We have to form a majority government in the state in 2017. I was state president in 2011 and now netaji (Mulayam) has once again given me this responsibility. No one has the capacity to disobey what he says," Shivpal said.
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