Cong rubbishes UP alliance talks
New Delhi, Dec 25, 2016, DHNS:
The Congress has dubbed talks of the party contesting the upcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with the Samajwadi Party(SP) and the RLD “completely baseless”.
AICC General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is in-charge of the party affairs in Uttar Pradesh, asserted that no discussions have taken place with the ruling SP for a pre-poll alliance.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has called a meeting of the state party leaders on Monday to discuss the Assembly elections scheduled early next year.
At an earlier brainstorming session, several party leaders had favoured an alliance with the SP to get a toehold in the government as they believed that a joint strategy would pay rich dividends.
The Congress has kept backchannels open with the SP, which is going through an internal turmoil due to fight between factions headed by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav, who is the state unit chief .
While Akhilesh favours an alliance with the Congress, his father and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav is opposed to the idea.
There were reports that the SP had agreed to part with 100 out of the total 403 seats in the state Assembly for the Congress, RLD, JD(U) and other regional outfits. The Congress was learnt to have been alloted 78 seats.
AICC General Secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad, who is in-charge of the party affairs in Uttar Pradesh, asserted that no discussions have taken place with the ruling SP for a pre-poll alliance.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has called a meeting of the state party leaders on Monday to discuss the Assembly elections scheduled early next year.
At an earlier brainstorming session, several party leaders had favoured an alliance with the SP to get a toehold in the government as they believed that a joint strategy would pay rich dividends.
The Congress has kept backchannels open with the SP, which is going through an internal turmoil due to fight between factions headed by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav, who is the state unit chief .
While Akhilesh favours an alliance with the Congress, his father and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav is opposed to the idea.
There were reports that the SP had agreed to part with 100 out of the total 403 seats in the state Assembly for the Congress, RLD, JD(U) and other regional outfits. The Congress was learnt to have been alloted 78 seats.
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