The Samajwadi Party on Saturday ended a long cold war and officially told Shivpal Yadav of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) and Om Prakash Rajbhar of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) that they were free to break the alliance with the party.
Soon after separate letters addressed to them by the SP became public, Mr. Rajbhar held a press conference and welcomed the snapping of ties. He accused SP president Akhilesh Yadav of betraying the backward communities. “Akhilesh gave us talaq, we accept the divorce. Talaq kabool hai,” he said.
The SBSP fought the Assembly election earlier this year in alliance with the SP and won six seats in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
