Former minister in Samajwadi Party government and Independent MLA from Kunda assembly seat of Pratapgarh Raghuraj Pratap Singh, also known as ‘Raja Bhaiya’, met Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav at his residence in Lucknow today. Raja Bhaiya, who is known to be a prominent leader of the Thakur community, had severed ties with his former ally, the Samajwadi Party. Akhilesh Yadav Took over as party chief.
According to reports, Raghuraj Pratap Singh had sought time to meet Mulayam Singh Yadav, after which he reached Yadav’s residence at around 11:15 am today. Although Raja Bhaiya has termed this meeting purely as a ‘courtesy meeting’, but with only a few months left in the 2022 UP assembly elections, there should be political speculation about any kind of agreement between Akhilesh Yadav and Raja Bhaiya. are going. Sources also reveal that Raghuraj spoke to the SP chief on phone on Wednesday evening.
Raja Bhaiya, a six-time MLA from Kunda, tweeted a picture of himself with Mulayam Singh Yadav after the meeting and wrote, “Meet the Hon’ble Mulayam Singh Yadav after a long time, emotional moment.”
Talking to the media in Lucknow on Thursday, Raja Bhaiya said, ‘I had come to wish Mulayam Singh Yadav on his birthday. Every year I have to congratulate Netaji on his birthday. His birthday was not celebrated for the last two years so I could not come. No political speculation should be made about this meeting.
During the Rajya Sabha elections in 2018, the Samajwadi Party had differences with Raja Bhaiya over the closeness of the SP-BSP. The political animosity between Raja Bhaiya and BSP chief Mayawati is well known in UP. After this Raghuraj had announced his political party Jansatta Dal. Singh is said to have had good relations with Mulayam Singh and has also served as a minister when Mulayam was the chief minister of the state.
Earlier on Wednesday, Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha member and UP in-charge Sanjay Singh went to meet Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow. The meeting between the two leaders took place at the Janeshwar Mishra Trust, fueling political speculation of any understanding between the SP and AAP over some key UP seats in the NCR region for the 2022 UP state assembly elections. However, both the camps termed the meeting as a purely ‘courtesy’ meeting.
This was the third meeting between Sanjay Singh and Akhilesh Yadav in recent times. Earlier on Monday, there was a meeting between the two leaders on the occasion of Mulayam Singh’s birthday. Sanjay Singh also tweeted a picture of himself presenting a bouquet to Mulayam Singh and wrote, “Happy Birthday to the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Hon’ble Mulayam Singh Yadav ji, leader of Indian politics. I met him at his residence in Lucknow and wished him a long life.”
Apart from this, on the occasion of Akhilesh’s birthday in July, Sanjay Singh also met Akhilesh, when he praised the SP chief and pointed out the similarities between him and Kejriwal. There is a lot of speculation going on in the political corridors of UP regarding this meeting because some political analysts are not ruling out the agreement between Samajwadi Party and Aam Aadmi Party.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the SP chief had met Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhary at his residence in Lucknow and hinted at strengthening the alliance between the two parties. Now it is expected that a formal announcement of alliance between RLD and SP for 30 to 35 odd seats in Jatland in western Uttar Pradesh may be made soon.
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