Seeking to put at rest speculation, UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday ruled out forming any new party and offered to step down if the party supremo and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav so desires.
Akhilesh broke down while addressing a meeting of party legislators, ministers and MPs convened here by Mulayam Singh Yadav at the party headquarters, outside which supporters of rival SP factions exchanged blows prompting police to use force to disperse them.
Amid protests from his supporters, Akhilesh offered to step down as CM if Mulayam so desired.
“Let ‘netaji’ (Mulayam) install a chief minister who he feels is honest,” he said.
“Why should I form a new party?” he posed in an emotionally choked voice.
At the meeting Akhilesh said all these years he had toiled hard for the welfare of the people.
“Merey pita, merey guru hain (my father is my guru)” he said.
