New Delhi, Jan 17: The dynamics of the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance have come to surface on Tuesday after the Congress party confirmed that the two parties would contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections together. According to sources, the Congress will get 89 seats out of 403. Sources say another 14 candidates selected by UP CM Akhilesh Yadav may contest on the Congress symbol.
The deliberations are on regarding the number of seats that the RLD is demanding to contest the elections. The RLD is demanding 30 seats but Akhilesh is ready to give 20 seats to the party, according to sources.
Meanwhile, the dispute between Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav does not seem to be ending. Sources say that Mulayam Singh Yadav has given a list of 38 candidates to Akhilesh Yadav and it does not include Shivpal Yadav even though his son Aditya Yadav has been included in the list.
It is most likely that the Congress has accepted this arrangement under the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav. The Congress on Tuesday morning confirmed that it will form an alliance with the Samajwadi Party in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the formal announcement for which will be made soon.
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said that the alliance will take the state of Uttar Pradesh on the path to progress. Congress leader and actor Raj Babbar was also present at the Press Conference.
“Details about it will be decided in coming days, for now we can say that there will be a Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance under the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav,” Azad said.
Akhilesh Yadav had earlier said that he will form a Bihar-like grand alliance in Uttar Pradesh. When asked about this, Azad said, “As of now it is alliance of the Congress and SP, will think about ‘maha-gathbandhan’ in the coming days.”
The official announcement is expected soon as Uttar Pradesh goes to the first phase of Assembly elections on February 11. Uttar Pradesh will have seven-phase polling beginning from February 11 and last phase polling on March 8. The counting of votes and results will be declared on March 11.
Congress workers miffed
Meanwhile, some Congress workers are miffed at the party’s decision of allying with the Samajwadi Party for the forthcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Minutes after the Congress confirmed its alliance with the Samajwadi Party ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, a faction of the party’s workers came out protesting outside the party headquarters in New Delhi. Congress workers raised slogans like ‘Gathbandhan thukrao, UP bachao (Reject alliance, save UP)’. The workers also demanded that Congress campaigner Priyanka Gandhi be brought to the forefront in Uttar Pradesh.
“The 2019 Lok Sabha elections are a big election for Rahul Gandhi. With this alliance, the Congress will lose out a chance in the 2019 elections,” said one of the party workers protesting outside the AICC headquarters.
