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Shivraj Chouhan Jabs Akhilesh Yadav Calls Him Todayโ€™s Aurangzeb

Lucknow: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan slammed Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today, comparing him to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.

At a rally in Uttar Pradeshโ€™s Deoria, Mr Chouhan asked voters whether they can trust someone โ€œwho wasnโ€™t loyal to his fatherโ€, alluding to Mr Yadavโ€™s fight with his father Mulayam Singh Yadav over control of the Samajwadi Party ahead of the UP elections in 2017.

The Yadavs in 2016 had a rift over deciding who would head the party and a tussle had followed over keeping the partyโ€™s election symbol. Akhilesh Yadav, who was Chief Minister till 2017, eventually became the party chief.

โ€œAkhilesh is todayโ€™s Aurangzeb. One who wasnโ€™t loyal to his father, how will he be loyal to you? Mulayam Singh himself said so,โ€ Mr Chouhan said at the rally in UP, where voting for the third phase was held today.

โ€œAurangzeb jailed his father, killed his brothers. Mulayam ji says no one has humiliated him the way Akhilesh did,โ€ the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister said.

Mulayam Singh Yadav, after the row in 2016 that stretched into 2017, had said he had no dispute with his son and that they would โ€œsort out problems.โ€ The senior Yadav had staked claim to the โ€œcycle,โ€ the symbol of the Samajwadi Party that he founded 25 years ago.

The seats voting today in UP are located in the west, central and southern parts of UP. In 2017, the BJP won 49 of these 59 seats while the Samajwadi Party won nine. The Congress won one seat and Mayawatiโ€™s Bahujan Samajwadi Party, none.

All eyes are on Karhal seat in the Yadav family stronghold Mainpuri, from where Akhilesh Yadav is contesting his first state elections. The BJP has fielded Union Minister SP Singh Baghel against him. The Samajwadi Party has lost this seat just once since the partyโ€™s inception in 1992.

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