Samajwadi Party to celebrate silver jubilee foundation day today

​In Uttar Pradesh, the ruling Samajwadi Party will celebrate its silver jubilee foundation day ​in Lucknow ​today. The event is being seen as yet another show of strength in SP's first family barely 48 hours after Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav launched his ‘Vikas se Vijay Rath Yatra’ on Thursday. Akhilesh Yadav and state party Chief Shivpal Yadav​ ​have asked their supporters to mobilise support for the silver jubilee function.​ ​

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sources said, one of the main objective​s​ of the function is to exhort all secular forces to unite and stitch together a ‘​Maha gathbandhan’ to defeat BJP in next year's Assembly polls.

Talking to media, Shivpal ​Yadav ​said nothing tangible has, so far, been achieved in forging an alliance with like-minded parties. He said, Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will take a final call for an alliance with Congress and other parties.