Efforts are being made to avoid split in Samajwadi Party

Amid hectic efforts to avoid a possible split in the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav has called a meeting of all the candidates allotted tickets tomorrow. The crisis reached at peak late last night after Akhilesh circulated his own list of 235 candidates for the Assembly elections, the schedule for which is likely to be announced any day now. Political drama in largest state of India is still continuing when Shivpal Yadav, the warring uncle of Akhilesh, drove to the residence of his brother and SP chief Mulayam Yadav. The two were closeted for nearly an hour, but it was not immediately known what transpired at the meeting as Shivpal did not answer questions of reporters waiting outside Mulayam’s residence.