Lucknow. His uncle Shivpal Yadav’s tussle with nephew and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has increased further. The condition is now that Shivpal does not even want to sit with the SP MLAs anymore. Shivpal has requested UP Assembly Speaker Satish Mahana to change his seat in the House. Shivpal is the president of PSP and is an MLA from Jaswantnagar seat on SP ticket. At present, he sits on the seat behind the Deputy Chairman. In the year 2017, after a rift with Akhilesh Yadav, Shivpal left the SP and formed a separate party named Praspa. This time he had an agreement with Akhilesh before the election, but later things got worse once again.
Shivpal had continuously adopted an attacking attitude on Akhilesh in the past. After meeting the jailed Azam Khan, he said that the SP did not do anything to get Azam released. After this, on April 21, when Akhilesh Yadav said that those who meet BJP will not be in the SP, Shivpal called it irresponsible statement and commented that he should throw me out of the legislature party soon. Shivpal had also said in an interview that Akhilesh insulted him a lot and did not give more seats even after asking.
Shivpal had also started giving signs of being closer to the BJP in the midst of a growing tussle with Akhilesh. On March 26, when Shivpal was not invited to the meeting of the SP MLAs, he went to Delhi. After returning from there, he met CM Yogi Adityanath. Shivpal also started following Yogi, PM Narendra Modi etc on Twitter. Recently, he was also absent from the meeting of the MLAs of the alliance parties of SP.