Find out the latest updates on the Samajwadi Party family feud:
- Akhilesh Yadav becomes president of parliamentary board of Samajwadi Party in UP, will decide the distribution of tickets
- I have myself congratulated SP's UP unit president Shivpal Yadav after meeting him at his residence, says Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. (PTI)
- I and Shivpal had created the party when Akhilesh was in school: Mulayam tells party workers.
- UP CM Akhilesh Yadav keeps Shivpal's PWD department; Shivpal gets 2 new departments.
- Shivpal Yadav will remain UP party chief. I wish him well. I appeal to supporters to not stage protests: Akhilesh Yadav.
- Ticket distribution to be taken by Mulayam, Akhilesh and Shivpal Yadav
- After a patch up in the Yadav family appeared to be on the cards on Friday, a massive of show of strength was put on streets of Lucknow by Akhilesh and Shivpal camps today.
- Supporters of both the camps clapped and raised slogans near the Samajwadi Party office.
- The uncle and the nephew who are at loggerheads over the authority to distribute tickets also met at the CM’s residence this morning. The meeting lasted for 10 minutes.
- Akhilesh Yadav had announced last night that his disgruntled uncle will be given back his portfolios and Gayatri Prajapati will be reinducted as Cabinet minister, issues which had triggered an all-out war.
- The announcements were made as per the compromise formula worked out by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav who asserted that "There can be no division in the party, till I am there."
- Defending 'outsider' Amar Singh, Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav on Friday advised Akhilesh not to develop an ego and to "gain more experience".
(With PTI inputs)