Akhilesh Yadav dissolves all SP units in Uttar Pradesh

MoneyControl   • Aug 23, 2019 05:32 PM IST

By PTI
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 Attempting a course correction in the party after its Lok Sabha poll
debacle, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on August 23
dissolved its all units in Uttar Pradesh, including the state executive, and
district and youth wings, sources said.

The party, however, has retained state president Naresh Uttam, they said.

"Party president Akhilesh Yadav has dissolved the state executive. All
district executives and the executives of youth and other wings have also
been dissolved," a senior party leader told PTI requesting anonymity. "A
new executives will be formed soon."

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The surprise development is being seen as an effort by the SP to recover
its electoral base after its poor performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls
when it won just ve seats -- the same as in 2014 -- despite stitching a
pre-poll alliance with the BSP and the RLD.

Much to the SP's chagrin, while its tally remained stuck at ve, the tie-up
bene tted Mayawati's BSP, which bagged 10 seats in the state -- it drew a
blank in 2014 general polls.

What rubbed salt to the SP's wound was the shock defeat of Dimple
Yadav, Akhilesh's wife who had entered the fray as a sitting MP. She
represented the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat.

Just a day after the Lok Sabha results were declared, the party chief
sacked the panel of leaders appointed as spokespersons for TV channels.

The appointment of all party panellists was cancelled in one stroke by the
party chief who also said that no TV channel should invite any of them for
debate.

A party insider said Akhilesh began churning within the organisation the
very day the results were out, with over a dozen Assembly by-polls not far
away, and the bigger target of 2022 Assembly elections in mind.

"After the LS polls, party president Akhilesh Yadav has been meeting
people and taking feedbacks from party workers and of ce-bearers. After
going through all the aspects, the party executives will be reorganised
with new 'josh' (enthusiasm) to take on the BJP," party chief spokesman
Rajendra Chowdhury said.

The Lok Sabha election debacle for the Samajawadi Party is the second
instance when Akhilesh Yadav has miscalculated his move.

He had tried his hand at coalition-building in Uttar Pradesh in the 2017

assembly elections as well, teaming up with Congress. His father and
party's founding leader Mulayam Singh Yadav
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the move. He was ignored.
The SP-Congress alliance failed miserably and BJP's Yogi Adityanath
replaced Akhilesh Yadav as Uttar Pradesh chief minister.

In 2019 Lok Sabha polls too, Mulayam had advised him against forming
the BSP alliance for the Lok Sabha. The veteran leader's advice was not
heeded to again.

In 2017, Akhilesh had harped upon development agenda during his stint
to attract voters. His 'kaam bolta hai' (work speaks for itself) campaign
failed to resonate among UP voters.

In 2019, he decided to go back to the tried and tested caste-based

calculations to win seats. He failed again.

Having suffered back-to-back electoral defeats, Akhilesh now faces a

daunting task of not only regaining the people's con dence in the party
but also assuring them of its own identity in state and national politics,
some party leaders said.

In 2012, after a stint as the head of the SP's youth wing and UP unit
president, he was picked up by his father to become the state's youngest
ever chief minister at 38.

In the early years of his term as SP unit chief and the CM, he struggled
with his father's legacy -- tackling politicians like D P Yadav, Amar Singh
and Azam Khan. His uncle Shivpal Yadav brought in ma a don Mukhtar
Ansari's Quami Ekta Dal into the SP, against his will.

Another uncle, Ram Gopal Yadav, backed Akhilesh as he tackled

dissension in the party and the Yadav clan.

Just ahead of the 2017 assembly polls, Akhilesh staged a "coup" of sorts
when at an emergency convention of the party in January that year,
Mulayam Singh Yadav was ousted as national president and relegated as
its 'patron'.
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Later, the BJP was to call him Aurangzeb, recalling what one Mughal
emperor did to his own father.

After the "coup", the two SP factions went to the Election Commission,
which ruled in Akhilesh's favour, allowing his group to retain the 'bicycle'
poll symbol.

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