What Akhilesh Yadav plans to achieve with Vikas Rath Yatra

Also read: Akhilesh may have won against his father, but the battle for UP still awaits

Hemmed in by his father and his uncle, and denied the kind of recognition that many believe should automatically have been his, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, in embarking on his state-wide Vikas Yatra, has taken what many believe to be his biggest political gamble so far. And in doing so, he has decided to gamble his reputation and his political future.

This yatra in many ways will determine his future. If he manages to demonstrate his hold over the masses, and in the days ahead replicate if not improve the kind of response his yatra evoked on the first day, then he will have emerged, finally and irrevocably, from the shadows of his father Mulayam and the machinations of his wily uncle Shivpal.

He can then go to establish himself as not just the political heir of his father but also the face of the SP for the future.

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