Motorcycle symbol to liquor ban: Akhilesh's strategy for UP polls

The 'motorcycle' could signify a modern Samajwadi Party under Akhilesh Yadav's leadership

In mid-October, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar offered his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Akhilesh Yadav, who is over 20-years his junior, a talisman: implement prohibition in Uttar Pradesh, just as he had in Bihar, and win the UP Assembly polls.

Akhilesh is currently in the midst of a family feud with his father Mulayam Singh Yadav and uncle Shivpal Yadav. The two sides have also approached the Election Commission (EC) to lay claim to the party’s ‘bicycle’ symbol. If the EC freezes the ‘bicycle’ symbol, the Akhilesh camp could look at other symbols, particularly ‘motorcycle’ to signify a modern Samajwadi Party