Mulayam expels Akhilesh from party for 6 years

The ruling Samajwadi Party was on Friday on the precipice of a split with party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav expelling his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and general secretary Ramgopal Yadav for six years after they put up candidates against the official nominees and summoned a party meet on Sunday.

The expulsion was dubbed by a defiant Ramgopal, Mulayam’s cousin, as “unconstitutional” even as the move plunged the party into an unprecedented crisis raising questions over the fate of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.