Will SP’s ‘Nat’l Dreams’ Wake Up to Reality? As UP Slips from Mayawati & Akhilesh, Lessons Nitish Offers

Akhilesh Yadav, elected president of the Samajwadi Party for a third term, asked party workers on Thursday to bring together supporters of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar and socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia to form a national party.

However, Mayawati was quick to retort, saying his effort to show himself as an Ambedkarite is an “eyewash” inspired by the “greed for votes”. In a Hindi tweet, the Bahujan Samaj Party chief said this…