Seat-Sharing: Akhilesh: Seat-sharing With Cong Non-issue, Defeating Bjp Solely Purpose | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: Sending a transparent message that the Samajwadi Get together won’t thoughts strolling the additional mile in seat-sharing with the Congress within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, former UP CM Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday mentioned an important subject earlier than the opposition was to defeat the BJP.
The SP has been sustaining a studied silence on the difficulty of its seat-sharing talks with the Congress for a month now. Sources mentioned this was as a result of the SP management was sad over repeated statements of former UPCC chief Brijlal Khabri that occasion cadres in UP weren’t in favour of alliance with SP. Sources mentioned such statements of Khabri have been seen in distinction with the initiative of the nationwide Congress management which was greater than keen to see an opposition alliance in place.
On July 6, Brijlal Khabri had issued a press release in Lucknow saying that Congress employees in UP have been open to alliance with any occasion however SP within the 2024 polls. The SP management took exception to such a powerful assertion by the then UPCC chief and that, too, days earlier than the opposition alliance was to get collectively in Bengaluru for his or her second assembly on July 19. Thereafter the SP went silent on alliance with the grand outdated occasion in UP for the 2024 polls. SP’s displeasure over Khabri’s assertion was observed by the Congress management in Delhi.
Lastly, on August 17, Khabri was faraway from the submit of UPCC chief after a brief stint of 10 months. He was changed by a identified Congress face and occasion’s regional president Ajay Rai. The event comes days earlier than the opposition alliance is all set to fulfill once more, this time in Mumbai on August 31 the place SP and Congress are anticipated to debate the ultimate seat-sharing method in UP for the 2024 polls.
“UP mein Congress ko kya dena hai ye koi bada sawal nahi hai … Bada sawal ye hai ki BJP ko harana hai … (Depend of seats that SP will spare for the Congress in UP is a non-issue … the larger purpose is to defeat the BJP),” Akhilesh Yadav mentioned, responding to a selected question posed to him at a conclave organised by a personal information channel on Saturday. On his previous expertise of SP’s alliance with the Congress in 2016 meeting polls and with the BSP in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Akhilesh mentioned that each the alliances have been an important studying expertise. “I’ve all the time entered into an alliance to defeat the BJP because the prime goal. Samajwadi Get together has all the time selected the seat-sharing method with a giant coronary heart,” he mentioned.
Political observers say SP was exhibiting a “massive coronary heart” this time as a result of the management is conscious that the grand outdated occasion might not press for an uncomfortable variety of seats. “The issue with the Congress is that the majority of its ticket seekers from UP, like Jitin Prasada (Shahjahanpur & Dhaurahra), RPN Singh (Kushinagar), Imran Masood (Saharanpur), Ratna Singh (Pratapgarh) and Harendra Malik (Muzaffarnagar) have been not with the Congress whereas its leaders in Kanpur and Unnao are not lively in politics. In such a situation, the Congress is just not more likely to cut price aggressively for seats in UP,” mentioned a political commentator.
Up to now, the opposition bloc INDIA has agreed to discipline one candidate from the opposition on each seat in opposition to the BJP-led NDA within the polls slated to be held early subsequent yr.