<p>Although the reference was to the entire new generation, the message was not lost on the people, especially as it came from a person who has been saying that he was ‘betrayed’ by his son.<br /><br />Samajwadi Party (SP) patron Mulayam Singh Yadav has advised new-age youth to serve their parents and not to “ignore” them. <br /><br />“Today we find that the youth are ignoring their old parents... This is unfortunate,” the 78-year-old Mulayam said, while speaking at a function in his Etawah on Monday.<br /><br />“One gets divine blessings by serving parents... The gods reward them... unfortunately the youth of today do not like it,” he said.<br /><br />Mulayam also said his father had looked after an old man in his village, who had been abandoned by his children. <br />Though Mulayam did not mention his son and SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav’s name while offering the advice, many in the audience took the remarks as an outpouring of a father, who had said on many occasions that he had been betrayed by his son.<br /><br />“I could have become the chief minister of UP in 2012 but I chose to give the post to Akhilesh... I should not have made him the CM,” Mulayam had remarked earlier.<br /><br />Akhilesh had removed Mulayam as the party’s national president a few months before the Assembly polls in the state and got himself anointed as the party supremo.<br /><br />Mulayam and his younger brother Shivpal Singh Yadav have asked Akhilesh to relinquish the party president’s post and restore Mulayam as the party supremo. <br /><br />Akhilesh had said before the polls that he would hand over the party to Mulayam after the polls.<br />DH News Service</p>
<p>Although the reference was to the entire new generation, the message was not lost on the people, especially as it came from a person who has been saying that he was ‘betrayed’ by his son.<br /><br />Samajwadi Party (SP) patron Mulayam Singh Yadav has advised new-age youth to serve their parents and not to “ignore” them. <br /><br />“Today we find that the youth are ignoring their old parents... This is unfortunate,” the 78-year-old Mulayam said, while speaking at a function in his Etawah on Monday.<br /><br />“One gets divine blessings by serving parents... The gods reward them... unfortunately the youth of today do not like it,” he said.<br /><br />Mulayam also said his father had looked after an old man in his village, who had been abandoned by his children. <br />Though Mulayam did not mention his son and SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav’s name while offering the advice, many in the audience took the remarks as an outpouring of a father, who had said on many occasions that he had been betrayed by his son.<br /><br />“I could have become the chief minister of UP in 2012 but I chose to give the post to Akhilesh... I should not have made him the CM,” Mulayam had remarked earlier.<br /><br />Akhilesh had removed Mulayam as the party’s national president a few months before the Assembly polls in the state and got himself anointed as the party supremo.<br /><br />Mulayam and his younger brother Shivpal Singh Yadav have asked Akhilesh to relinquish the party president’s post and restore Mulayam as the party supremo. <br /><br />Akhilesh had said before the polls that he would hand over the party to Mulayam after the polls.<br />DH News Service</p>