Last Updated: October 21, 2023, 21:13 IST
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. (File picture/PTI)
On Thursday, Yadav had expressed unhappiness over the Congress not allocating any seat to the SP regardless of talks on seat-sharing in MP and prompt that the Congress may get the identical remedy from his social gathering in Uttar Pradesh
The Congress shouldn’t “betray” the Samajwadi Party and will make it clear if they need an alliance or not, SP president Akhilesh Yadav mentioned on Saturday, amid a spat between the 2 INDIA bloc allies over their failure to reach at a seat-sharing association for the Madhya Pradesh meeting polls.
He, nevertheless, hinted the Congress management has approached him over the problem. “I received a message from someone through the seniormost leader of the Congress party. If he is saying something, I will have to follow. He gave some message,” Yadav mentioned, with out revealing any title or explaining additional. “But one thing I want to say is: why did they call us if they did not want an alliance?” This got here a day after the SP chief had mentioned his social gathering leaders would not have answered calls from the Congress for a gathering in Madhya Pradesh had he identified that the INDIA bloc was confined to the nationwide degree.
Speaking to a reporter right here on the sidelines of a celebration operate on Saturday, Yadav mentioned the Congress social gathering ought to “tell us if they want to have an alliance or not”.
“Do not conspire against us, don’t betray us. They should tell us straight that they don’t need Samajwadis. I promise you that we will not talk about alliance even once and will begin preparation to defeat the BJP on our own,” he mentioned.
“If there were to be no alliance why were we called? They should have told us that there would be no alliance at the state level and the alliance would be formed in the Lok Sabha election,” Yadav added.
On Thursday, Yadav had expressed unhappiness over the Congress not allocating any seat to the SP regardless of talks on seat-sharing in MP and prompt that the Congress may get the identical remedy from his social gathering in Uttar Pradesh.
The SP chief had mentioned his social gathering leaders would not have answered calls from the Congress for a gathering in Madhya Pradesh had he identified that the INDIA alliance was confined to the nationwide degree. “I must have got confused,” he had advised reporters.
Hitting again, Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai mentioned on Friday that Yadav can not blame the Congress because the SP launched its listing of candidates earlier than his social gathering and was benefitting the BJP by contesting individually.
However, the SP president reiterated that the INDIA bloc ought to have clarified that there can be no tie-up within the state elections.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) introduced its third listing of two candidates on Thursday night time. With this, it has introduced 33 candidates for the November 17 polls to the 230-member meeting within the BJP-ruled state. The Congress has introduced its candidates for 229 seats.
According to insiders from each events, Congress had agreed to depart six seats for the SP in MP however the association didn’t materialise.
The INDIA grouping got here into being primarily to place up a united entrance in opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan took a dig on the INDIA bloc after its constituents fielded candidates in opposition to one another in meeting polls, saying the opposition grouping is pushed by the motto of “friendship in Delhi and wrestling in states”.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
