Are Muslims Angry With Akhilesh?

Netaji did nothing." Renegade Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Shivpal Yadav wasn't mincing his words.

- Ashish Misra

He had just come out of Sitapur Jail after paying a visit to senior SP leader Azam Khan, lodged there for the past 26 months on charges of having grabbed land for his dream project, Rampur's Jauhar University. It's the first time he has spoken directly against elder brother Mulayam, who is still the much-revered 'Netaji' (leader) to everyone, even if the real target was his nephew and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. With Azam Khan in the mix, what Uttar Pradesh is seeing is a scaling up of the not-so-latent hostilities that have dogged the Samajwadi Party for years, within its first family and beyond.