Akhilesh suffers second setback within a week as Mukhtar Ansari dons the 'Samajwadi' cap

New Delhi: With Mukhtar Ansari getting inducted into Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav’s problems have diversified. As a CM who thought of cleansing the party by removing tainted men, the gangster-politician contesting on SP ticket comes in a huge setback. The culmination of the power struggle within the Yadav family has gone on to show who the boss is. The message is loud and clear that Akhilesh’s functioning and governing is not the way the party chief and the brother approve of. The notorious Ansari brothers from Mau haven’t had a history of inspiring tales in Uttar Pradesh and now are back again to degenerate and polarise the prevailing condition of the state that sends the largest amount of MPs to the Parliament. Akhilesh is facing a similar challenge as to what Nitish Kumar is facing in Bihar. Mukhtar Ansari is what Mohd. Shahabuddin is to Bihar. Both the CMs’ criminal clean up mission is facing massive road blocks thereby raising serious doubts on their abilities. Shahabuddin has returned to the jail though, but the RJD strongman is said to be running his cartel behind the barracks with all impunity. Mukhtar also runs a similar syndicate and the success in which he operates must have propelled Mulayam and Shivpal to again approach him for the penultimate contest before the Lok Sabha elections. Shivpal shepherded the merger between Quami Ekta Dal and Samajwadi Party and this depicts that he has been given the green signal by the elder brother to call the shots. Mukhtar, who was shown the door by Mayawati, had his targets in the form of VHP general secretary Nand Kishore Rungta and BJP MLA Krishnand Rai. His infamous bloody rivalry with Brijesh Singh gang brought in the armory of the AK-47s and sophisticated rifles in eastern UP. Mukhtar's great grandfather had participated in the freedom struggle but the circumstances now are different. But Akhilesh now has to realize that his ‘clean up’ mission looks to be a farfetched one as he is on the verge of succumbing to pressure from his seniors.