Cut to 2012, it was the don of Ghaziabad, DP Yadav, who was being inducted into the Samajwadi Party (SP). The party called off the deal with DP Yadav, who blasted Akhilesh as "a child in politics". The insinuation here is about the various power centres Akhilesh has to compete with: Mulayam and his office, Shivpal Yadav, Mulayam's cousin Ram Gopal Yadav, and Mulayam's son from his second wife Prateek Yadav. Akhilesh, then the new party state president with little room for manoeuvring, put his foot down to the utter chagrin of SP bigwig Azam Khan — or Azam chacha as he calls him. At the top of the heap is Atiq Ahmed who, according to his opponents, once had 100 cases registered against him.

Source: Economic Times July 02, 2016 20:25 UTC