Feud between Akhilesh Yadav & Mulayam Singh Yadav was fixed drama: Mayawati

New Delhi: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Saturday attacked Samajwadi Party (SP), Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in one go. Coming down heavily on SP she said fight between father and son was "fixed". "Feud between Akhilesh Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav was fixed drama", said Mayawati and taking a dig at the rumours between Congress-SP alliance said-"Akhilesh has now become face of the Congress party too." Muslims should not waste their vote on SP, they must vote for BSP so that BJP can be defeated, said BSP Chief Mayawati. While attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi she said-"People are unhappy with policies of Narendra Modi. Poor and backward are angry with PM." BSP supremo said Congress will get nothing in UP (during upcoming Assembly election). Congress's condition is so bad in UP that they are not able to find candidates despite doing rath yatras and khaat sabhas, said Mayawati.

Family feud in Yadavs

Since Akhielsh Yadav became chief minister of UP, the family has been divided into two feuding groups with him against his father Mulayam Singh Yadav. CM has the support of his father's cousin, Ram Gopal. His father is supported by Shivpal (Mulayam Singh's brother) and friend Amar Singh. Akhilesh, on 30 December 2016, was fired from the party by his father one day after he released a separate list of candidates for the upcoming elections, only to be readmitted within a day. The following day junior Yadav was elected as the national head of Samajwadi party (SP) by his party's national convention in Lucknow, replacing his father who termed it as illegal.