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I`m Samajwadi Party`s national president, Ram Gopal has no right to call meet, asserts Mulayam
At an impromptu press conference in Delhi, the senior Yadav announced that Ram Gopal Yadav has been sacked from the party with immediate effect.
New Delhi: In a fresh twist in the ongoing Samajwadi Party feud, embattled SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday declared the national convention called by Ram Gopal Yadav last week as illegal, asserting that he is still the party's national president.
At an impromptu press conference in Delhi, the senior Yadav said Ram Gopal Yadav was already suspended for six years on December 30 so he has no right to convene the party's national convention on January 1 in which his son Akhilesh Yadav was made the SP chief.
Ramgopal, who has been backing Akhilesh in the internecine fued in the party, had convened the meeting in his capacity as SP general secretary.
“The national convention called by him (Ram Gopal Yadav) on Jan 1, making Akhilesh as Samajwadi Party chief is illegal,” he said.
He asserted: “I am Samajwadi Party chief and Akhilesh Yadav is the chief minister,” and adding nothing has changed in the party status-quo.
He also declared that Akhilesh's uncle Shivpal Yadav continues to be the party's state president.