{"id":28028,"date":"2016-10-25T12:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=28028"},"modified":"2016-10-25T12:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T12:42:46","slug":"mulayam-says-family-is-united-and-all-is-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/mulayam-says-family-is-united-and-all-is-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulayam says family is united and all is well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A day after dramatic scenes were witnessed in the Samajwadi Party headquarters here, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav tried to present a picture of calm at a press conference on Tuesday, saying his family and party were united.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flanked by party&#8217;s State unit chief Shivpal Yadav and others, Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav said there would be no change at the helm of the government, meaning his son Akhilesh Yadav would continue as Chief Minister. He reasoned it was too late to consider such a move as the election code of conduct would soon be enforced in the State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28029\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/2034047159.jpg\" alt=\"online news portal\" width=\"600\" height=\"521\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, keeping the mystery alive, Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav avoided any direct answer to questions on whether Mr. Akhilesh Yadav would be the chief ministerial face of the party in the 2017 elections. \u201cOurs is a democratic party&#8230; First give us a majority and we will see,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also reminded that in the last election, though he chose Mr. Akhilesh Yadav as the chief Ministerial candidate, the voters sought his name.Though Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav said all is well in his party and family, the tension within the camp was palpable with Mr. Akhilesh Yadav missing from the conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28030\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Akhilesh-mulayam.jpg\" alt=\"online news portal\" width=\"875\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Akhilesh-mulayam.jpg 875w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Akhilesh-mulayam-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav also indicated that he would not consider any request from his son to act against his close aide, Amar Singh, a day after he referred to him as his brother and said \u201call his sins are forgiven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhy bring Amar Singh into everything?\u201d Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav said to a reporter&#8217;s query. He also chose to downplay the remarks against him by his expelled cousin and former party general secretary Ramgopal Yadav, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t give any weightage to his words anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after dramatic scenes were witnessed in the Samajwadi Party headquarters here, party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav tried to present a picture of calm at a press conference on Tuesday, saying his family and party were united. Flanked by party&#8217;s State unit chief Shivpal Yadav and others, Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav said there would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[10961,3335,11320,11319,9978,5460],"class_list":["post-28028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-amar-singh","tag-family","tag-general-secretary","tag-mr-akhilesh-yadav","tag-mulayam-singh-yadav","tag-samajwadi-party"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mulayam-singh-yadav-759.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}