After Aparna-Prateek, Shivpal Yadav meets Yogi Adityanath

Lucknow: Days after he asserted that he will stay loyal to Mulayam Singh Yadav, senior Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday.

The meeting has triggered intense speculation in SP and BJP party circles even as there's no word from either side on the agenda of the interaction.

However, Shivpal has been steadfast in his commitment to Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav).

"I am with Netaji (Mulayam) and would stay with him," he had said last week. Shivpal's comments came after Mulayam, in a public outburst, said that his son had insulted him and his brother Shivpal.

Shivpal later said that voters understood that "one who is not loyal to his father, cannot be loyal to anyone" which led to the party's poll debacle in UP assembly elections where the SP got only 47 seats out 403.

He also went to the extent of saying "Jo apne baap kaa nahi ho saka, woh aapka kya hogaa (how can a person who is not loyal to his father, be loyal to you)."

The SP patron also mentioned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi during one of his election rallies in Kannauj had also echoed the same sentiment.

Shivpal's meeting with Adityanath comes after the much-talked about meeting between the CM and Mulayam Singh Yadav's younger son Prateek and his wife Aparna.

Adityanath had later visited a cow shelter run by an NGO managed by Aparna.

Aparna has also alleged that he lost the assembly election from Lucknow Cantt due to back-biting from Samajwadi Party leaders

She also rejected speculations that she is planning to join the BJP.