Snubbed by the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) Uttar Pradesh,Congress announced that it would contest all 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
“We will fight on all 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. We are fully prepared. And just like Congress emerged the number 1 party in Uttar Pradesh in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, we’ll fight on our own and win twice the number of seats in the upcoming elections,” senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said at a press conference in Lucknow.
Referring to the Congress’ 2017 alliance with the SP for the UP assembly elections, Azad said, “We didn’t break this alliance, people should know that. We had said earlier too that we’re ready to walk with every party that wants to defeat the BJP. But we can’t force anyone. They’ve (SP-BSP) closed this chapter, so we’ll continue this fight for defeating BJP on our own.”
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said in Dubai that his party would fight the elections in the state alonits “full capacity”e with . “BSP and SP made a political decision. It’s on us on how to strengthen the Congress in Uttar Pradesh and we will fight with our full capacity,” he said at a press conference.
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