SP releases list of nine candidates in MP, leaves no room for alliance
Samajwadi Party (SP) announcing its candidates for nine assembly seats, the possibility of an SP alliance with the Congress in the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls has been ruled out. MP will go to polls on November 16.
This may affect the talks between the two parties for seat-sharing arrangement in the 2024 LS polls in UP.
Both parties are part of the INDIA bloc.
Hours after the Congress announced its first list of 144 candidates for the MP assembly polls, SP declared its candidates for nine seats. «While the names of six candidates were declared in the earlier list, three names were added to it,» a source in the SP said.
The candidates announced by SP are Meera Dipak Yadav, Brij Gopal Patel alias Babloo Patel, DR Rahul, Vishwanath Singh Markan, Sharwan Kumar Singh Gond, Laxman Tewari, Manoj Yadav, Mahesh Sahare and Ram Pratap Singh Yadav — for the seats Niwari, Rajnagar, Bhander (reserved), Dhauhani (reserved), Chitarangi (reserved), Sirmour, Bijawar, Katangi and Sidhi — respectively.
What has apparently troubled the SP leaders is the Congress' decision to field its candidate, Charan Singh Yadav, from the Bijawar seat.
The SP had won one seat — Bijawar in Chhatarpur district — in the 2018 MP elections.
When the Congress fell short of a majority despite emerging as the single largest party in the previous polls, two BSP MLAs, one SP legislator and four Independents provided outside support to the then Kamal Nath-led government.
After the fall of the Congress government headed by Kamal Nath, the SP MLA from Bijawar seat, Rajesh Shukla, had joined the BJP camp. SP has now fielded Manoj Yadav from the Bijawar seat.
The issue of alliance among the partners of the INDIA bloc in the states, which are going to polls this
