Patna,(BiharTimes): The fear of CBI probe coupled with the feud within the family of Mulayam Singh Yadav, rather than de-nial of seats by the JD(U), RJD and Congress are responsible for the virtual disintegration of the Janata Parivar.
Sources from New Delhi confirmed to BiharTimes that as Mu-layam has grown old he has lost grip on the family members. The tussle between cousin Ram Gopal Yadav and brother Shivpal Yadav is too apparent.
Netaji has grown too old to do a tight-rope walking between the two. Like in May last once again it was the party general secre-tary Ram Gopal Yadav who on Thursday called off the alliance. Last time too it was he who said that mega-merger of the six parties would be suicidal. He said that more than three weeks after Mulayam was chosen as the leader of the mega-alliance.
This time again it was four days after the August 30 Swabhiman Rally––where Shivpal conveyed the message of Mulayam and publicly declared that his party is prepared to make any sacri-fice for the cause of secular alliance––that Ram Gopal threw cold water into all the whole game plan.
The corruption charges against Noida engineer Yadav Singh, against whom the Supreme Court has ordered CBI probe, has rattled Ram Gopal more than others in the family as the former is considered close to Samajwadi Party leaders.
That is why on August 27, that is three days before the Patna rally, he accompanied Mulayam to meet Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi. And on August 31 Ram Gopal Yadav met BJP presi-dent Amit Shah alone. On September 3 he called for snapping of ties with the grand alliance.
Mulayam himself is now in the grip of the BJP. There is even fear in some quarter that he may be arrested by the CBI any moment as there are several corruption cases pending against him. In such a situation the election in Bihar or merger of the parties of Janata Parivar is not the priority.
Sources within the Samajwadi Party go to the extent of alleging that Ram Gopal is playing into the hands of the BJP, which would do anything to see the disintegration of the grand alli-ance for obvious reasons.
Mulayam is finding it extremely difficult to get out as he himself is in trouble.
Shivpal is on the other end within the party. So different leaders are pulling the party to opposite direction with chief minister Akhilesh Singh has little role to play in this dirty game played by his uncles.
In Bihar the Samajwadi Party was never a force and there was no question of demanding so much seat. Last time in 2010 it contested in 146 seats and got just over 0.9 per cent votes. Be-sides, the final announcement that JD(U) and RJD will contest 100 seats each and Congress 40 was made much before the Au-gust 30 rally. The Samajwadi party leadership never ques-tioned it then. In fact Shivpal attended the rally and spoke in fa-vour of grand alliance. Thus it is clear that dispute in seat shar-ing has little to do with the snapping of ties with the mega-alliance.