Samajwadi Party then and now: Fight between the past and the present

There is trouble brewing in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the polls with the ruling party stuck in a messy battle between father and son. While Akhilesh Yadav has been declared the Samajwadi Party’s national working president, his father and party patriarch, Mulayam Singh Yadav has challenged the same calling it unconstitutional. Both have approached the Election Commission to decide who gets to lay their hands on the party symbol that is essential for the election campaign. The family battle over Samajwadi Party is far more than a battle for power and reputation. It is a tussle between the past and the present, a fight between Uttar Pradesh as it was 25 years back and the state as Akhilesh understands it to be in the present.

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