UP CM’s decision ignored; Shivpal, Gayatri Prajapati reinstated

Lucknow: Apparently on the back foot, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday announced that the portfolios, which were snatched from senior Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav, will be given back to him.

Taking to micro blogging website Twitter, the CM also announced that Gayatri Prajapati, the minister of mines who was sacked by him, will be inducted back in the cabinet.

Tweets of CM Office:

Portfolios will be given back to Mr. Shivpal Singh Yadav.

— CM Office, GoUP (@CMOfficeUP) September 16, 2016

Mr. Gayatri Prajapati will be inducted in the cabinet.

— CM Office, GoUP (@CMOfficeUP) September 16, 2016

The flashback:

• On June 21, Shivpal had merged Mukhtar Ansari’s Quami Ekta Dal (QED) and Samajwadi Party (SP).
• Opposing Shivpal’s step, Akhilesh had cancelled the merger.
• On August 14, Shivpal had raised the issue of brokerage and created a furore in political circle by saying that he would resign from the party if atrocities against deprived are not stopped.
• Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav had also held Akhilesh led Uttar Pradesh government responsible for this on Independence Day at party office.
• Shivpal had diluted the issue, saying ‘all is well within the party and Samajwadi family’.
• Shivpal had said no one including Akhilesh Yadav could stop the merger of QED-SP merger.
• Calling Akhilesh inexperienced, Shivpal had said that former is too young and learning politics.
• On September 12 (Monday), Akhilesh sacked Mining Minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati and Panchayati Raj Minister Raj Kishor Singh.
• Akhilesh, on Tuesday, removed Chief Secretary Deepak Singhal and posted Rahul Bhatnagar as the new CS.
• Hours after Akhilesh’s step, Mulayam appointed Shivpal as the Samajwadi Party State President by Mulayam replacing Akhilesh Yadav.
• After this Akhilesh, in an unexpected manner, stripped his uncle Shivpal of important portfolios of PWD and irrigation and handed him less important portfolios.
• Sulked over the decision, Shivpal proceeds to his native place in Etawah from where he goes to Delhi to meet Mulaym there.

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