Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was on 28th March 2017 unanimously elected Leader of the SP Legislature Party in both the Houses of the Uttar Pradesh Legislature.
SP veterans Azam Khan and Shivpal Singh Yadav were conspicuous by their absence from the meeting.
At the meeting of SP MLAs and MLCs, the former chief minister was unanimously elected as the combined leader of the party in both the state assembly and council.
Besides, Akhilesh was also authorised to pick the leader of the party in the legislative council.
Akhilesh is a member of the Upper House, where senior SP leader Ahmed Hasan leads the party.
He had nominated seniormost party MLA Ram Govind Chaudhary as the leader of the SP in the assembly, paving the way for his becoming the leader of opposition(LoP) in the assembly.
RLD has one MLA in the 403-member state assembly.
