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On Saturday, the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav met the Samajwadi Party MLAs ahead of his father and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav’s meeting with party leaders later in the day.
Following hectic political activity on Friday, the last day of 2016 is set for another round of frenzied politics in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday as expelled Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is likely to play his cards.
Many are seeing Mr. Akhilesh meeting as an attempt to count the support he enjoys, now that he stands against his father and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.
With 70-plus sitting legislators dropped from the party’s official candidate list for the 2017 assembly polls and many office bearers shown the door by the party in the past few weeks, Akhilesh was largely counting on these “rebels” to strengthen his position.
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