NEW DELHI: Putting an end to the Samajwadi party's ongoing rift, UP governor Ram Naik on Saturday evening reallocated ministries to party leader Shivpal Yadav that were taken away from him, barring the portfolio of PWD.
The portfolios — irrigation, revenue, flood management and medical education have been given back to the minister after days of tussle with his nephew and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Earlier in the day, Akhilesh had signalled rapproachment with uncle Shivpal Yadav and promised to support him as SP's state unit president, a post from which he was himself removed three days back bringing the family feud in the open.
At the same time, Akhilesh asserted that he should have a role in deciding candidates for next year's Assembly polls, on a day when hundreds of people came out in his support which was disapproved of by party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav. Akhilesh, after his meeting with Shivpal also asserted that there was o rift within the party and that they stand united.
"I have congratulated him (Shivpal Yadav) on being the Uttar Pradesh chief of the Samajwadi Party and have asked all Samajwadi workers to congratulate him," Akhilesh Yadav told reporters here.
SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav had earlier asked Akhilesh to hand over 13 portfolios to Shivpal.
The schism within the party had spilled into the open after chief minister Akhilesh Yadav stripped uncle Shivpal of key ministerial portfolios on September 13, hours after he was replaced with Shivpal as the party's state unit chief by Mulayam.
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