SP-BSP announces list of seats for Lok Sabha polls
Lucknow, Feb 21 (IBNS): Just few days ahead of the announcement of Lok Sabha poll dates by the Election Commission, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Thursday announced the list of seats for the upcoming elections.
Some of the seats which will be fought by the SP candidates are Kairana, Muzaffarabad, Ghaziabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, Phulpur, Gorakhpur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency Varanasi.
Mayawati's BSP will contest from Aligarh, Fatehpur Sikri, Saharanpur, Amroha among others.
The alliance will not field any candidate in Amethi and Rae Bareli seats which are known as the Congress' strongholds.
Though the Congress fought the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2017 in an alliance with the SP, the country's oldest political party has been kept out of the deal this time.
However, Congress president Rahul Gandhi said his outfit will "play in front foot" and appointed his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and leader Jyotiraditya Scindia as the party in-charge in east and west Uttar Pradesh respectively.
Mulayam hits out at SP-BSP alliance:
Claiming that BJP is far ahead in preparation for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party patriarch and patron Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday hit out at his son and party president Akhilesh Yadav, over his alliance with the BSP.
"By contesting just 40 seats out of the total 80 in the state, Akhilesh has finished the party by 50 per cent, while delaying the announcement of candidates will further weaken the prospect of the party," said Yadav, while addressing the party workers at the state headquarters, in presence of mediapersons.
Peeved over the act of party president, he questioned ''Who is finishing the party?"
"The fight of SP is against BJP and the party workers should pull up their socks to fight and win majority of contesting seats," he said.
On the last day of the 16th Lok Sabha, Yadav, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, even had praised Modi and wished his return to power.
UP at a glance:
Uttar Pradesh is a key state for the success in any General Elections as it consists of 80 Lok Sabha seats.
In the 2014 General Elections, the BJP and its allies had won 73 seats in the northern state, paving the way for Narendra Modi to become the Prime Minister. The Congress had won just two seats.
Image credit: Samajwadi Party Twitter
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