The development comes in the wake of a growing rift between the Samajwadi Party and its two allies Shivpal Singh Yadav s Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) and Om Prakash Rajbhar s Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday dissolved the national, state and district executive bodies of all its organisations, including the youth and the women s wing, with immediate effect.
Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) president Shivpal Singh Yadav, on Friday, met SP leader Mohd Azam Khan, who is lodged in the Sitapur jail, IANS reported.
Akhilesh Yadav and Azam Khan's resignations from parliament indicates that Samajwadi Party is ready to focus on its role as the opposition party in Uttar Pradesh.