We will start a membership drive from April 15 and the

election of the national president will be completed before September 30, Akhilesh said.

Referring to reports of the state's ministers and bureaucrats picking up brooms in view of the new Chief Minister's stress on cleanliness, SP chief said " I did not know that my officials are so good at brooming or else I too would have handed it over to them".

However, Yadav's remark that he would make fire brigade spray 'ganga jal' on the official CM residence did not go well with the BJP.

The party's UP spokesperson Manish Shukla said that the "comment made by Akhilesh Yadav in the context of purification of official residence of UP Chief Minister is indecent." "If the overall attitude of Akhilesh remains like this, and there is not likelihood of any change, then he would not be able to play the role of an opposition," Shukla said.

The BJP spokesperson also hit back at Akhilesh by referring to the absence of party stalwarts like Mulayam Singh Yadav and Shivpal Singh Yadav from the meeting saying it raises question about whether he pays proper respect to them.

SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and his brother Shivpal Singh Yadav were not present in today's meeting which was attended by senior leaders Ram Gopal Yadav and Kiranmoy Nanda.

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