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Two UP Congress leaders hitch onto Samajwadi
Party bicycle
Sunday April 22, 2012 05:55:29 PM,
Mohit Dubey,
IANS
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Lucknow: Notwithstanding the bonhomie evident at the recent meeting between
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, ties between the state's ruling Samajwadi Party
(SP) and the Congress appear set to strain.
Barely a month after the SP leadership made it clear that it would
not accept political 'grass hoppers' into the party fold, within
the last day the party has admitted two leaders from the Congress,
with which they shared a bitter relationship in the run up to the
crucial state assembly polls.
While the state president of the National Students Union of India
(NSUI) Pravin Chowdhary 'quietly' joined the Samajwadi Party late
Friday, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav's 'samdhi'
Jitendra Yadav, who fought elections on a Congress ticket from
Sikandarabad, Ghaziabad, Saturday hitched on to the SP, further
embarrassing the Congress, which is already reeling under the
after effects of the defeat at the hustings.
Talking to IANS, Yadav, who is the father-in-law of Lalu Prasad's
daughter Ragini, said he had realized his mistake of leaving the
SP, which was his "home for 25 years" and now he was "correcting
the mistake". "I am thankful to UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav,
Mulayam Singh and Shivpal ji for embracing me back into the party
fold," he said and added that the SP was the "only party working
for the weaker sections".
The developments have rattled people behind the idea of a
"cohesive Congress-SP relationship".
A close aide of the chief minister conceded that this was
"politics" and that the chief minister was a votary of close
centre-state relationship and it should be seen as limited to that
only. Congress, ever since the landslide win for the SP, has been
trying to 'mend fences' with the Yadavs, as was evident in the
high-profile contingent it sent for Akhilesh Yadav's swearing in
on March 15.
Bonhomie was also apparent at the meeting between Akhilesh Yadav
and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that was followed by a "very
cordial" meeting between Union Water Resource Minister Pawan K.
Bansal and state PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav, signalling a
thaw in the relations.
With the presidential election just three months away, political
observers feel the Congress "will bear the developments with a
smile and not displease the regional satrap Mulayam" as it badly
needs him to push its candidate into the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
(Mohit Dubey
can be contacted at mohit.d@ians.in)
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