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Estranged Shivpal Yadav also said that his new party will contest all the seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections

Shivpal Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav
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Shivpal Yadav, Akhilesh Yadav

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“There is a limit to the humiliation a political leader can bear”. Thus spoke Shivpal Yadav, uncle of former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh and part of the larger Yadav family, who has just split the Samajwadi Party to form a Samajwadi Secular Morcha. 

The estranged Yadav also said that his new party will contest all the seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections — without specifying whether this would be all the 545 seats in the Lok Sabha or just the seats in UP. For the moment, the new party is concentrating on augmenting its strength in western and central UP