SP power feud: Akhilesh unwilling to concede ground

Reiterates his faction represents real SP

Amid the ongoing power struggle in the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) and uncertainty over the rightful claimant to SP’s official party symbol of bicycle to contest 2017 Uttar Pradesh, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Wendesday asserted he represented the real Samajwadi (socialist) ideology.

This assertion has come even as multiple attempts by top SP leaders to mediate and resolve the imbroglio coming to a naught the rival camps digging in their heels for what appears to be a long drawn fight, which is likely to seriously hamper the electoral prospects of the party.

Yadav, who was talking to media persons