Samajwadi Party to contest 2027 Uttar Pradesh polls as part of INDIA bloc, says Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday said that the Opposition INDIA bloc will contest the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls together, The Hindu reported.
“INDIA bloc is intact and we are firmly with it,” the newspaper quoted Yadav as saying. “The alliance will contest the elections together.”
The former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh was responding to a question about Congress MP Imran Masood’s comments from May.
Masood had told The Indian Express that the Congress is “facing harm because of the alliance [with the Samajwadi Party]”.
The Saharanpur MP had called for a revised seat-sharing arrangement between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress. He added that the “80-17 formula” would not work in the 2027 state polls, the newspaper reported.
“We are not worried about any such statement,” PTI quoted Yadav as saying. “Whoever wants to leave can leave the INDIA bloc.”
The “80-17 formula” refers to the 2024 Lok Sabha election seat-sharing deal where the Congress contested 17 of Uttar Pradesh’s 80 parliamentary seats, with the Samajwadi...
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