Shivpal to float new party after March 11

LUCKNOW: In a new twist to the feud in the Yadav clan, former SP state unit president Shivpal Yadav on Tuesday announced that he will float a new party after March 11. "There were speculations about my stand but now I have filed nomination papers as a Samajwadi Party candidate. Results will be declared on March 11, thereafter we will float a new party," Shivpal said. "You make the government, we will make a new party," he said. Senior SP leader, who was locked in a bitter power tussle with nephew Akhiesh Yadav,  said that he'll accommodate leaders, workers sacked by the UP chief minister in his new party. "What was the Congress's condition before six months? They were not in a posotion to win even four seats in Uttar Pradesh. Only Congress will benefit from this alliance. What will our men, who were denied tickets, do now?, he said. Taking a jibe at Akhilesh, SP's Jaswant Nagar candidate said he was ready to contest elections if he denied ticket. Minutes after the announcement, the chief minister said in Etah, that those working against the party's interest will not spared. He, however, did not take any name. Earlier, voicing displeasure over the alliance between Samajwadi Party and Congress, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav had said he would not campaign for it in the state assembly polls. Mulayam, who had rejected the possibility of an alliance for the assembly polls before being deposed as party president by Akhilesh, said, “Congress ruled the country for a long time and made it laggard. We always fought against Congress.” “Samajwadi Party is capable of contesting elections alone. In the past, it fought alone and formed government with a majority. No occasion arose for effecting an alliance,” he said. After the Election Commission settled the dispute between Mulayam and Akhilesh in the latter’s favour, the SP patriarch had submitted a list of 38 candidates to his son but chosen not to field nominees separately.