Samajwadi Party’s national vice president Kiranmoy Nanda declared on Monday that Akhilesh remains the party’s choice for Chief Ministerial candidate for the Assembly election in 2017, reports Business Standard.
The statement from Nanda came days after party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav evaded a question about Akhilesh’s candidacy and said that the party’s parliamentary board and legislators will decide who will be the CM candidate in 2017.