After the confirmation of the seat-sharing agreement between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Congress state in-charge Avinash Pande said that to stop the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), they have to come together.
Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav on Tuesday congratulated the Congress and the Samajwadi Party on the confirmation of seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, and excluded confidence in winning the polls.
"Samajwadi Party and Congress will contest Lok Sabha elections together. This will strengthen the INDIA alliance and INDIA will form its government in 2024. The opposition parties will contest the election together. We have tried to stop the scattering of non-BJP votes," Mehrotra told ANI
Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav confirmed an alliance with the Congress, assuring that details would be revealed soon. He stated that there was no conflict between the two parties, emphasizing that all would be clarified in due course.
After Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the Samajwadi Party, party leader Dimple Yadav on Tuesday mentioned how the party has supported him a lot since he joined the party and also asserted that the party respects him a lot.
After Swami Prasad Maurya tendered his resignation from the Samajwadi Party, SP leader Shivpal Singh Yadav on Tuesday said that he is unaware as to why Maurya took this decision adding that it is a matter of his "conscience."
Maurya, in his resignation letters, one addressed to the Chairman of the State Legislative Council and another to the Samajwadi Party chief, Akhilesh Yadav, said that he has resigned from the membership of the Legislative Council on moral grounds.
Hitting out Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav's "benefit" remark, party leader Swami Prasad Maurya on Monday said, "... He is not in power in the state or the centre. He is not in a condition to give anything. And I will return everything he has given to me till now. Ideology is import
"Right now talks are going on, lists have come from their side and from ours as well, the moment the seats are distributed, the Samajwadi Party will join Congress's Nyaya Yatra," Yadav said speaking to reporters on Monday.