Shivpal Yadav, the estranged uncle of Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and brother veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav, was on Monday named as one of the star campaigners for the party for the ongoing Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh.
In what seemed to be a hint towards bettering of ties between Akhilesh and his uncle, the Samajwadi Party named Shivpal, who heads the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya), in the new list along with Mulayam, Dimple Yadav and others. Shivpal’s name was missing in the list of campaigners released by the Samajwadi Party ahead of the election.
The move came close on the heels of the Mulayam clan hitting the campaign trail together for Akhilesh in Karhal Assembly constituency. Malayalam is likely to campaign for the party in the coming days for the remaining four phases of the election.Other prominent names in the new list include Ram Gopal Yadav, Kiranmoy Nanda, and Swami Prasad Maurya, the former Union minister who had left the BJP weeks ahead of the polls.
