Samajwadi Party War Room

It is 2 pm in the afternoon and 36-year-old Ashish Yadav, head of the Samajwadi Party's war room for the Uttar Pradesh elections, has already been at work for many hours. The party's war room has recently shifted to the plush interiors of a two-storey bungalow, a few feet from the main party office in Lucknow.

There were no elephants in the room at this morning's gathering of the Samjawadi Party - years' worth of resentment were unbelted in quick speeches by the trio of Yadavs whose clashes threaten to tear the party apart just months ahead of the election in Uttar Pradesh.

It is 2 pm in the afternoon and 36-year-old Ashish Yadav, head of the Samajwadi Party's war room for the Uttar Pradesh elections, has already been at work for many hours. The party's war room has recently shifted to the plush interiors of a two-storey bungalow, a few feet from the main party office in Lucknow.

There were no elephants in the room at this morning's gathering of the Samjawadi Party - years' worth of resentment were unbelted in quick speeches by the trio of Yadavs whose clashes threaten to tear the party apart just months ahead of the election in Uttar Pradesh.