LUCKNOW: While the supporters of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav were busy collecting affidavits of pledge from MLAs andMLCs to be produced before the Election Commission to claim the bicycle symbol, the support for him came from an unexpected quarter. Striking an emotional connect with ongoing fierce family feud, a brother-sister duo of Ghaziabad have shot off a letter, written in their blood, to Election Commission appealing it to allocate the party symbol ‘bicycle’ to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
Sana (15), a student of Class X and her younger brother Azeem, student of class II also threatened the EC to end life if Akhilesh failed to get the party symbol.
The duo went to post the letter on Friday but were stopped by their father. It is believed that the children took out the blood through a syringe to write the letter. Samajwadi Party is witnessing one of the most bitter battles of nerves between Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and father Mulayam Singh Yadav with uncle Shivpal siding with Mulayam.
The infighting has reached the Election Commission with both the warring factions staking claim to the party symbol at a time when the poll dates have already been announced.
According to their father, the children write poems on the CM and SP and recite them at public functions. Both seem to have drawn the inspiration from a news report about a person to wrote such a letter to draw authorities’ attention over any issue, says the father adding that Sana and Azeem like Akhilesh Yadav because of his free laptop distribution scheme.
The letter is also addressed to SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav who has been requested by the two children to hand over the party responsibility to Akhilesh.