UP CM Akhilesh Yadav sacks secondary education minister Balram Yadav

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has ​sacked minister for secondary education Balram Yadav, who played an active role in the merger of mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s Qaumi Ekta Dal (QED) in the Samajwadi Party



​yesterday. 

According to sources, the CM was not in favour of the merger of QED in the SP. He had made his intentions clear to senior party leaders. ​T​he state government issued a notification dismissing Balram Yadav by ​late yesterday.