As the time nears General Elections 2024, the INDIA alliance seems breaking apart. After Nitish resigned from INDIA Kejriwal gave no seats to the Congress in Delhi. Now Akhilesh has taken a new step that might shake the alliance between Congress and Samajwadi party in the upcoming elections.
In a recent official statement, Samajwadi Party chief, Akhilesh Yadav has offered Congress with 17 seats for contesting an election in Uttar Pradesh. This means the Samajwadi Party or any member of INDIA alliance will not be running their candidate from the particular seat and will assist Congress in defeating NDA from the allotted seats.
Will join Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra only if our proposal is accepted
This is our final offer, according to SP sources. Akhilesh Yadav will accompany Rahul Gandhi on the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra if Congress approves of this. “We have made a final offer of 17 Lok Sabha seats to Congress,” stated Rajendra Chaudhary, chief spokesperson for the SP. Congress’s willingness to accept this offer will determine Akhilesh Yadav’s involvement in the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Rae Bareli.
The identities of the seats that are offered to Congress will be discoled on Monday. On Monday, the Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra will arrive in Rae Bareli after passing through Amethi. Rahul’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Rae Bareli is something the SP chief had previously declared he would participate in.
In an announcement released last night in Amethi, Congress announced that its president, Mallikarjun Kharge, would be in the city for the yatra. Previously, the state unit of the Congress party demanded more seats.
From 15 to 17 came the final offer of Samajwadi Party
Before this, Ajay Rai, the president of the State Congress, had stated that his party should be awarded roughly twenty seats, which it won during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. The last time around, Congress had taken Rae Bareli, the only seat in Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh has 80 seats in the Lok Sabha. Although Akhilesh Yadav’s schedule was set, he stated on Monday that we would not embark on the yatra until the seats were assigned to them. He had previously proposed 15 seats, but after Congress rejected his offer, the number was raised to 17.
Akhilesh Yadav already named 27 candidates, even before the Congress and themselves could agree on seats. Eleven more candidates have been declared by him after he first made public the list of 16 candidates. Afzal Ansari from the Ghazipur seat is one of them.
In addition, Akhilesh Yadav has announced candidates for seats in Chandauli, Gonda, Amla, Hardoi, and Bahraich. However, SP hasn’t made a decision about the Congress-dominated seats as of yet.