 "Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav with expelled SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav. Photo: PTI")
The infighting within the Yadav clan, which controls the Samajwadi Party, has all the ingredients of a soap opera: suspense, envy, ambition and histrionics. It is a clash of generations as much as it is about the internal politics of a powerful family where the rules of succession have not been neatly laid down. Such are the daily twists and turns that friend and foe alike are unable to plan their next move.
On January 1, the power struggle claimed its biggest casualty thus far when patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav was removed as the party’s national president, though he was made
