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UP ; No alliance with RLD, SP goes only with Cong

| | Jan 19, 2017, at 10:39 pm
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IBNS) : The much talked abut anti-BJP grand alliance in Uttar Pradesh is likely to come a cropper with the Samajwadi Party deciding to align only with the Congress, leaving out Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal which has considerable sway over Jat votes.

According to reports, Samajwadi Party National Vice President Kironmoy Nanda on Thursday made it clear that the party will not ally with the RLD and that it will enter into alliance only with the Congress.

“No alliance with RLD. Samajwadi Party will ally only with Congress. Seats will be announced soon. There were no talks with RLD,” Nanda said.

RLD leader Trilok Tyagi also reportedly said that no talks on alliance were held between SP and RLD.

“Samajwadi Party leaders talked to us in the past but there were no talks on alliance after that,” he said.

According to media reports, the SP will contest 300 out of the state's 403 Assembly seats for the next month's elections leaving the rest for the Congress.

The negotiations between the two sides have reportedly stalled over seat sharing as RLD was not ready to accept anything below 30 as against the SP's reported offer of 23 seats.

Uttar Pradesh will go to a seven-phase election from February 11.

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