Former Uttar Pradesh minister Shivpal Yadav announced on Friday he was breaking away from the Samajwadi Party and starting his own outfit headed by party patriarch and former CM Mulayam Singh Yadav.
A News agency reported that the new party would be called Samajwadi Secular Morcha.
“To give Netaji back his honour and to bring all Samajwadis together, the new morcha would be announced soon,” Yadav told ANI.
This comes weeks after the Samajwadi Party suffered a bruising defeat in the state elections that was blamed on a months-long feud between Shivpal and his nephew Akhilesh Yadav over control of the party. Now Akhilesh must make his own group for the survival. After a drubbing defeat in the recent elections it is very difficult to hold the flock together.
