New Delhi, Oct. 27: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh today said he was hurt that Akhilesh Yadav had called him a "fixer", reminding the younger man that he was the "only one" who had backed him when his family opposed his marriage to Dimple Yadav.

"There is no photo of his wedding where this dalal (fixer) is not there," Amar told news agency ANI.

Akhilesh, who blames Amar for the ongoing feud within Samajwadi boss Mulayam Singh Yadav's family, had called the Rajya Sabha MP a " dalal" at a party meeting in Lucknow on Monday.

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister had asked his father Mulayam to remove Amar from the party but was overruled. Mulayam even went to the extent of saying that Amar had saved him from landing up in jail.

Amar said he had backed Akhilesh when the entire Yadav family opposed his marriage to Dimple, a Rajput from Uttarakhand. "When his family was opposing the marriage, I was the only one supporting him," Singh told the news agency. "But today I am hurt by his words."

Amar wondered why Akhilesh was blaming him for his removal as state president of the party. He said he was blamed when Akhilesh was made the Samajwadi state president, replacing uncle Shivpal Yadav. "Even now I am being blamed," he said.

He said he had praised Shivpal for welcoming Akhilesh as the state unit chief and wondered why Akhilesh was so angry that his uncle, Mulayam's younger brother, had replaced him now.

Akhilesh had been state party president since 2011, a year before he took over as chief minister. Some party sources, however, believe that Shivpal has better organisational abilities and was, therefore, appointed ahead of the Assembly polls, due early next year.

Amar, who returned to the party six years after being sacked, said he would never abandon Mulayam. "I may not be with CM Akhilesh but will always be with Mulayam Singh Yadav," he said.

He attacked Mulayam's cousin Ram Gopal Yadav, Akhilesh's strongest supporter in the party who has been suspended by Shivpal for six years for "gross indiscipline".

He alleged that Ram Gopal, who had said Amar and Shivpal had become "criminals" in the eyes of the people and dared not face them, could harm him and that he feared for his life.

"I have two young daughters and right now I am scared...," Amar said. "If anything happens to me, he will be responsible."