Samajwadi Party should never allow mafia to enter party: Shivpal Yadav
The Hindu
Shivpal Yadav had quit the SP after differences with his nephew Akhilesh Yadav and formed his own party.
Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) founder Shivpal Yadav said members of the mafia should not be taken into the Samajwadi Party and claimed that when he was president of the Akhilesh Yadav-led outfit, such people were never allowed entry. Shivpal Yadav had quit the SP after differences with his nephew Akhilesh Yadav and formed his own party. “The mafia never came to the Samajwadi Party (SP). Mafias should not be taken. I had also not taken any. I was the State president (of the SP) and no mafia came to us. We never took Mukhtar Ansari,” Shivpal Yadav told reporters in Sambhal on Wednesday evening.
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