Akhilesh Yadav’s assertion got here whereas he was talking to reporters throughout his go to to Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah to pay tributes to his father and Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav on his demise anniversary.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday mentioned his get together’s alliance with the Congress will proceed, a day after his get together declared tickets for six of the ten Uttar Pradesh meeting seats the place bypolls are due later this 12 months.
Yadav’s assertion got here whereas he was talking to reporters throughout his go to to Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah to pay tributes to his father and Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav on his demise anniversary.
Requested concerning the distribution of get together tickets for the bypolls, Akhilesh Yadav mentioned, “I solely wish to say that the INDIA bloc might be there. SP and Congress alliance will stay intact…” He, nonetheless, didn’t elaborate and mentioned this was not the time to debate politics.
On being requested about his response to Haryana ballot outcomes, he mentioned, “We are going to talk about this once we meet once more.” In an obvious snub to ally Congress after its unsatisfactory present in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir meeting ballot, the SP on Wednesday introduced candidates for six meeting seats.
The Congress has been demanding 5 seats within the bypolls.
After the SP named its candidates for the Karhal (Mainpuri), Sisamau (Kanpur metropolis), Milkipur (Ayodhya), Katehari (Ambedkar Nagar), Phulpur (Prayagraj) and Majhwan (Mirzapur) constituencies, get together spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary had mentioned any seat sharing association with the Congress might be determined by get together chief Akhilesh Yadav. The Congress has been demanding the Phulpur and Majhwan seats moreover Ghaziabad, Khair (Aligarh), and Meerapur (Muzaffarnagar).
A by-election can be due in Kundarki (Moradabad). The Congress, which was anticipated to make a comeback in Haryana, obtained 37 of the 90 seats because the BJP gained a 3rd consecutive time period with a rating of 48.
In Jammu and Kashmir, the NC-Congress alliance bagged 49 of the 90 seats however the grand outdated get together gained solely six of the 32 it contested. Requested about SP’s announcement, Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai informed PTI, “We’ve submitted a proposal about contesting 5 of the ten seats to the excessive command. These had been the seats gained by BJP earlier.”
In line with SP’s official record, the get together named Tej Pratap Yadav from Karhal, Naseem Solanki from Sisamau, Mustafa Siddiqui from Phulpur, Ajit Prasad from Milkipur, Shobhawati Verma from Katehari and Jyoti Bind from Majhwan.
9 of those seats fell vacant after their respective MLAs had been elected as MPs within the Lok Sabha polls, whereas in Sisamau, the bypoll is being held because of the disqualification of SP MLA Irfan Solanki, who was convicted in a felony case.
(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA workers and is revealed from PTI)
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