Agra, 5 October(WishavWarta): Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was unanimously re-elected as the party’s national president for a five-year term on Thursday at the party’s national convention in Agra. The party’s constitution was amended to extend the tenure of the party chief to five years from the existing three years.
Mulayam Singh Yadav and Shivpal Yadav gave the SP event a miss just as they had stayed away from the state executive meeting of the party in Lucknow on September 23. Akhilesh had personally invited his father for the national convention. Forty-four-year-old Akhilesh will remain at the helm for five years, the 2019 Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections in 2022 will be held under his presidentship.