SP sidelines ‘poster boy’ Akhilesh for LS march

Eighteen months after he made his son the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, hoping for a generational change in the Samajwadi Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav is back at the front controlling both his party and state government. With his son, Akhilesh Yadav, failing to read into the situations — recent riots in western parts of the state being an example — and with trouble brewing within the SP — at least two sitting MPs have refused to contest Lok Sabha elections on party ticket — Mulayam has now firmly taken charge of the party's preparations for the 2014 elections.

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