A day ahead of announcing an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav said that they are ready to give Congress “their two seats” in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha election in an interview to NDTV on Friday, 11 January.
When asked if by “two seats” he means Amethi and Rae Bareli, Yadav said the the seat sharing formula has not yet been reached and that he won’t comment on Congress at the moment.
Speaking further on the SP-BSP alliance, Yadav said they have taken lessons from the BJP to get their electoral arithmetic right.
“The BJP allied with a number of parties in Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 election which resulted in them winning 73 seats in the state. We learnt from them and implemented the same strategy to win by-elections in UP,” Yadav said.