{"id":58579,"date":"2017-02-02T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T09:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=58579"},"modified":"2017-02-02T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T09:36:54","slug":"mulayam-campaign-sp-cong-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/mulayam-campaign-sp-cong-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulayam to campaign for SP-Cong alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the latest twist in the Yadav family battle ahead of the Uttar Pradesh polls, Mulayam Singh Yadav has taken a 180-degree turn and said he will not just campaign for his Samajwadi Party but also the Congress; days ago, he had gone public with his deep resentment at the alliance forged by his son, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;He is my son after all,&#8221; Mulayam Singh said, asked by a reporter if Akhilesh Yadav had his blessings.The Samajwadi patriarch also said he would start campaigning for his party &#8220;after the 9th&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58588\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mulayam-Singh-Yadav.jpeg\" alt=\"When will Nag hit the century\" width=\"660\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Would he campaign for the Congress as well, asked the media. The 77-year-old replied with another question &#8211; &#8220;They are our ally so why won&#8217;t I do it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 22, when Akhilesh Yadav unveiled the Samajwadi Party&#8217;s manifesto for the February-March election in the state, his father&#8217;s absence was striking.The same evening, Akhilesh Yadav posted on Facebook a photograph of his father holding up a copy of the manifesto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A day later, a sulking Mulayam Singh hit out at the Samajwadi-Congress alliance &#8211; announced jointly by Akhilesh Yadav and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, and threatened that he would not campaign for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58589\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89e7e7e0-d3fa-11e6-89f5-e9c163347fb8.jpg\" alt=\"When will Nag hit the century\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89e7e7e0-d3fa-11e6-89f5-e9c163347fb8.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89e7e7e0-d3fa-11e6-89f5-e9c163347fb8-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/89e7e7e0-d3fa-11e6-89f5-e9c163347fb8-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Samajwadi Party is completely capable of fighting elections alone. When we did that, we formed the government with a majority. So this was not needed. I am completely against this alliance, I won&#8217;t campaign,&#8221; Mulayam Singh had said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the start of this year, Akhilesh Yadav, backed by a majority of his party members, was recognised legally as the leader of party that Mulayam Singh founded. The Election Commission decided that the 43-year-old junior Yadav had the rights to use the Samajwadi name and symbol of the cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest twist in the Yadav family battle ahead of the Uttar Pradesh polls, Mulayam Singh Yadav has taken a 180-degree turn and said he will not just campaign for his Samajwadi Party but also the Congress; days ago, he had gone public with his deep resentment at the alliance forged by his son, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[9980,21,11073,306,1560,9978,30140,11117,5460,4322,30141],"class_list":["post-58579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-akhilesh","tag-campaign","tag-chief-minister-akhilesh-yadav","tag-congress","tag-media","tag-mulayam-singh-yadav","tag-mulayam-to-campaign-for-sp-cong-alliance","tag-polls","tag-samajwadi-party","tag-uttar-pradesh","tag-yadav-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/When-will-Nag-hit-the-century-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58579","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=58579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}