MP Polls: INDIA allies spar over seat sharing, Congress assures 'in principle' support for SP

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our people were not agreeing. Because the question was not how many seats, the question was which seats. We were not able to convince our people on the seats they wanted," he added.

The Congress leader filed his nomination from the Chhindwara seat on Thursday. ALSO READ: ‘Not about seats but…,’ Congress's Kamal Nath on political feud with Samajwadi Party in Madhya Pradesh The remarks came soon after SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said that his party had been ‘betrayed’ by the Congress. “If the Congress didn't want to give seats (in MP), then they should have said it before.

Today, the SP is fighting only on seats where it has its own organisation. Now, after Madhya Pradesh, I know that the INDIA alliance is for the (parliamentary) elections on a national level," Yadav was quoted as saying. “If the Congress continues to behave like this, then who will trust them? If we fight with confusion in mind against the BJP, then we won't succeed," he added.

Yadav had also reminded the Congress that the SP had extended support to the Congress to form their government in Madhya Pradesh – not once but twice. "We had one MLA, we were at number two in five seats. At the time when the Congress was in need, the Samajwadi Party was the first to support Congress.

And the result was that the Congress government was formed in Madhya Pradesh" Akhilesh Yadav said earlier. ALSO READ: Rebellion in MP Congress? Kamal Nath plays it down, says everyone can't get a ticket | 10 key points Surjewala said on Thursday that the Congress and SP were ‘in principle’ fighting together over issues such as unemployment, corruption and inflation and that their ‘DNA for the Constitution and the nation’ is the same. "We have been talking to our INDIA alliance friends