In Uttar Pradesh, rattled by Samajwadi Party's rout in Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today sacked 36 leaders with the status of Minister and Minister of State in his government but ruled out his resignation.

Party sources said, Akhilesh might sack some Cabinet and State Ministers too after the poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls, where the SP managed to get just five seats.

Prominent among those who have been removed are Narendra Bhati and Surendra Mohan Agarwal, who were defeated in Gautam Buddh Nagar and Kanpur seats respectively.

AIR Lucknow Correspondent reports, the ruling party got only five out of 80 seats in the Lok Sabha polls just two years after it got a spectacular mandate in the assembly elections in 2012.

The sacking came a day after the supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav held a meeting of party candidates to review its performance. Sources say that more heads may roll in the coming days as the party leadership is in no mood to carry on the leaders who did not deliver and have become liability for the organization.