Not worried about being sacked, must be ready for polls: Shivpal

Lucknow: Minutes after being

sacked

from the UP cabinet along with three other colleagues, senior SP leader

Shivpal Yadav

reached the party headquarters in Lucknow to address party workers and supporters.

Asking party workers to remain calm in the wake of the ongoing intra-party feud, Shivpal said he was not worried about having been sacked and that the party must, unanimously, focus on preparing for the 2017 assembly polls and winning them.

Shivpal, still smiling after a day full of drama, drove into the party office in his private vehicle after giving up his official government vehicle. In his first, veiled attack at close relative and senior SP leader

Ram Gopal

Yadav, Shivpal said, "Some senior leaders of the party have liaised with the BJP in order to escape the CBI noose."

Ram Gopal is facing a CBI probe for his alleged involvement in the Yadav Singh Noida investigation.