Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday tried hard to be diplomatic about their political and social moves in Gujarat, as the father took a critical note of the Narendra Modi government and son paid a courtesy visit to chief minister Anandiben Patel the same day.

The Yadav clan, which also includes Mulayam Singh’s younger brother Shivpal who is the SP general secretary, were in Ahmedabad to attend the pre-wedding event of former chairman of Medical Council of India (MCI) chief Dr Ketan Desai, daughter Erika, in Ahmedabad Saturday.

Soon after landing at Ahmedabad airport, Mulayam Singh Yadav told journalists, “He (Modi) had said that he will fulfill promises in six months. We remained quiet for six months. But now we will speak”.

He further said, “The biggest of all promises was of giving employment to youths. But he has so far failed to do so”. In the same breath he said, “He (Modi) does hard work and remains among the people. But he has failed to fulfill his promises”.

Over the issue of the forging family ties with Lalu Prasad Yadav, former UP Chief Minister said, “It is personal matter. Cannot be related to politics. And, earlier also we have for years worked for the same party. I used to visit as colleague to Bihar when he was CM”.

Replying to questions of plans of third front, Mulayam Singh said, “The BJP has come to power because of someone’s weakness. But SP has not gone weak. Seats may have reduced, our voting percentage has not gone down. We have maintained our strong position”.

Yadav had reportedly batted for the former MCI chairman who had been arrested and was investigated by the CBI in an alleged corruption case in 2010. In December 2013, Yadav is learnt to have written to the then union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, to reinstate him in the MCI .

The senior Yadav also took note of the issue of the Vadodara based Gujarati actor Chandani Rajgaur, who had put herself up for sale on facebook to earn money to medically treat her parents. Yadav said, that that government should come forward to help the woman from Vadodara .

Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav met Patel at her office in Gandhinagar Saturday afternoon for over an hour. The Gujarat Information Department sent out pictures of the two chief ministers calling it a “courtesy visit”. However Akhilesh refused to say anything about the meeting, saying he was in Ahmedabad “for a wedding” and would not take any questions.

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