Samajwadi Get together chief Akhilesh Yadav has supplied 17 Lok Sabha seats to Congress in Uttar Pradesh as a “last offer” forward of the final elections this 12 months, sources informed India Right this moment TV.
Chatting with the media on Monday, Akhilesh Yadav mentioned he would be a part of the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday provided that the seat-sharing is finalised.
“Talks are going on. Lists have come from here and there. The moment the seats are distributed, the Samajwadi Party will join Congress’s Nyaya Yatra,” he mentioned.
In response to sources, the Congress needs seats like Moradabad and Ballia, the dialogue on which continues to be occurring.
Within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Get together received the Moradabad seat. Within the mayor’s election in Moradabad, the Congress ended up in second spot and misplaced by just a few thousand votes.
The Congress additionally needs the Ballia seat for its state president Ajay Rai. Ballia is taken into account one of many strongholds of the Samajwadi Get together.
In response to sources, the Congress has given an inventory of 28 seats to the Samajwadi Get together. Amongst these, 10 seats have a big Muslim inhabitants.
In the meantime, the Samajwadi Get together on Monday introduced 11 extra candidates for Lok Sabha elections.
The celebration has additionally fielded candidates on vital Lok Sabha seats like Muzaffarnagar and Ghazipur. Harendra Malik has been given the ticket from Muzaffarnagar and gangster-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s brother Afzal Ansari has been given the ticket from Ghazipur.
The Samajwadi Get together has fielded Rajesh Kashyap from Shahjahanpur, Usha Verma from Hardoi, Rampal Rajvanshi from Misrikh, RK Chaudhary from Mohanlalganj, SP Singh Baghel from Pratapgarh, Ramesh Gautam from Bahraich, Shreya Verma from Gonda, Virendra Singh from Chandauli and Neeraj from Amla Lok Sabha seat.
Samajwadi Get together had earlier launched the primary record of candidates on January 30, during which the names of 16 candidates had been declared.