Questioning the legality of the convention which ousted him as president and appointed his son Akhilesh in his place, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today asserted he was still the party chief.
He claimed that the special national convention called by his cousin Ramgopal Yadav on January 1 in Lucknow was “illegal” as he, as party president, had already expelled him from the party on December 30. “I am the national president of Samajwadi Party and Akhilesh Yadav is (only) the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Shivpal Yadav is still the president of Samajwadi Party’s Uttar Pradesh unit,” Mulayam told newspersons here.
Mulayam is likely to visit Election Commission tomorrow to stake claim over the party’s name and election symbol ‘cycle’.