Azamgarh, June 19 -- Uttar Pradesh Minister Om Prakash Rajbhar on Friday slammed the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, asserting that the latter became the Chief Minister after "pushing out" his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav.

He added that the senior party leader Shivpal Yadav was "betrayed" as he should have been the Chief Minister after Mulayam Singh.

"Shivpal ji was betrayed. After Mulayam Singh ji, Shivpal Yadav should have been the CM, but instead, he was pushed out of the party. Shivpal ji once said the Samajwadi Party has become a party of thieves and mafias. He had warned that such a party cannot survive," Rajbhar, the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief, told ANI.

OP Rajbhar, a former SP ally, is now a member of t...