Uttar Pradesh: Shivpal Yadav's party to go solo in local body elections

Uttar Pradesh, Shivpal Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav — Image Source : PTI (FILE PHOTO) Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) National President Shivpal Yadav during the Samajik Parivartan Yatra, in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) president Shivpal Singh Yadav has said his party will contest the local body elections in the state alone. Presiding over a party meeting on Friday, Yadav said his party is taking lessons from past experiences and will contest the upcoming local body elections on its own.

According to a press release, Yadav said his party will move ahead with principles of progressive socialism and inclusive nationalism. Without naming anyone, he said no one is allowed to do politics of division and hatred in the name of Lord Ram. Education, medicine, electricity and drinking water should be made accessible and cheap, he added.

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Shivpal Yadav is the uncle of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and younger brother of SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav. Shivpal Yadav and his nephew had parted ways ahead of the Assembly polls in 2017. He formed the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) in 2018 but before the 2022 Assembly elections, both leaders came on one platform. He was elected from Jaswantnagar assembly constituency on the SP ticket. However, just after the elections, the differences between the two surfaced again.