The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress sealed their alliance for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls
The leaders of Samajwadi Party and Congress announced in Lucknow that the alliance will contest all the 403 seats.
After a hard bargain led by senior leaders Ahmed Patel and Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Congress managed to get 105 seats. SP will contest in 298 seats.
“For unity and integrity of India and following secular ideology, we will continue our fight under SP National President Akhilesh Yadav,” state Samajwadi Party chief Naresh Uttam told reporters in Lucknow.
“The country’s secular fabric will become stronger when Akhilesh Yadav becomes the Chief Minister again,” he added maintaining that uprooting the BJP is the main agenda of the alliance.
SP will have 298 candidates and Congress will have 105 in #UPElection2017 : Naresh Uttam, SP
The leaders of Samajwadi Party and Congress announced in Lucknow that the alliance will contest all the 403 seats.
After a hard bargain led by senior leaders Ahmed Patel and Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Congress managed to get 105 seats. SP will contest in 298 seats.
“For unity and integrity of India and following secular ideology, we will continue our fight under SP National President Akhilesh Yadav,” state Samajwadi Party chief Naresh Uttam told reporters in Lucknow.
“The country’s secular fabric will become stronger when Akhilesh Yadav becomes the Chief Minister again,” he added maintaining that uprooting the BJP is the main agenda of the alliance.
Congress’Uttar Pradesh unit President Raj Babbar said the effort will be to boost secularism.
“Keeping these factors in mind, Congress leadership agreed to strike an alliance to thwart BJP’s divisive politics and at the same time to boost secularism and promote communal and social harmony. Our ideologies are not different. We share many common ideologies,” he said.
Poll deal Samajwadi Party Vice-President Kiranmoy Nanda (left) shakes hands with Congress state President Raj Babbar at a press conference in Lucknow on Sunday Jan 22,2017
A timeline of events in the last one year that led up to the alliance between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress for the UP elections.
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