Samajwadi Party offers 11 Lok Sabha seats to Congress in UP, Akhilesh says alliance 'off to good start'
Samajwadi Party on Saturday announced that it has offered 11 Lok Sabha seats to the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, with former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav asserting that their alliance is «off to a good start». UP Congress president Ajay Rai said that the decision on the matter will be taken by his party's national leadership.
Yadav said in a post in Hindi on X, «Our cordial alliance with the Congress is off to a good start with 11 strong seats.
This trend will move forward with the winning equation. 'INDIA' team and 'PDA' (Picchda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak) strategy will change history.»
Elaborating further on the developments, chief spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party Rajendra Chaudhary told PTI, «We (Samajwadi Party) have offered 11 seats to them (the Congress), so that there is a respectable mutual coordination among us, and we defeat the BJP.»
Chaudhary also said the party's top leadership is in continuous touch with the Congress.
He said the number of seats offered, which stands at 11 now, is not likely to go up in the future.
«We have given 11 seats to the Congress (in UP) and seven seats to the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD). This comes to 18 seats. The SP will contest 62 seats in the Lok Sabha election,» the chief spokesperson of SP said.
