Samajwadi Party heavyweight and Mulayam Singh Yadav's cousin, Ramgopal Yadav, said on Thursday it was wrong for the party to have removed Akhilesh Yadav from the Uttar Pradesh chief's post without consulting with him.
"Had the party asked him (Akhilesh) to quit the post in view of the elections and focus on the chief ministerial job and that he (Shivpal) will take up the state president's job, he would have resigned," Ramgopal, who is the SP's general secretary and a Rajya Sabha member, told reporters.
The SP was thrown into turmoil on Tuesday night after Akhilesh curtailed uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav's powers, within hours of party patriarch Mulayam taking away the party's state presidentship from his chief minister-son and giving it to brother Shivpal.
On Thursday, Ramgopal denied there any crisis in the party. "Sometimes, some decisions are taken that make it appear as if there is a crisis. It happens in all the parties," he said.
He also denied reports that Mulayam had convened a meeting of the party's parliamentary board on Thursday in Lucknow." I am the secretary of the board. I summon meetings. I have not called any meeting," Ramgopal said.
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