Infighting erupts in ruling Yadav family in UP, Mulayam continues to pull the power strings
(WorldNews Business)

The patriarch has stepped in and all is well with the ruling family in Uttar Pradesh. This is the apparent message from the Samajwadi Party nearly a fortnight after the first public spat between the feuding Yadavs. But it may run the risk of ringing as true as earlier assertions that Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is his own man. Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav last Monday held a two-hour closed-door meeting with his son and CM Akhilesh, brother and PWD minister Shivpal Yadav, and cousin and Rajya Sabha member Ram Gopal Yadav in an attempt to scotch speculation about fissures within the family. With just a few months to go for the polls, though, the party may have to do more to put a lid on...