Congress Fooling Other INDI Alliance Parties: Akhilesh Yadav Hits Out At Kamal Nath For Not Allocating Seats To SP

Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav attacked Congress on Thursday (19 October) after alliance discussions between the two INDI Alliance parties failed for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections scheduled for 17 November.

Expressing displeasure over Congress not allocating seats to the SP in Madhya Pradesh, Yadav stated that Congress has betrayed them. This comes after both parties have fielded candidates against each other on 18 seats.

"Why did former Congress CMs Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh make us sit till 1 am at night? You people are fooling other parties. These Congress people are with the BJP," he alleged.

"If I had known that the alliance is not at the state-level, then I would have not sent SP leaders to Digvijaya Singh and Kamal Nath. If I had known that Congress would cheat us, I would have never trusted them," he added.

"I was told that six seats have been considered for you (SP) but the result was zero. I also want to tell Congress that don't let your chirkut (flop) leaders talk about our party," Yadav further said.

"We shared our complete performance in MP and everything was discussed. SP leaders were kept awake till 1 am. If I knew that there was no alliance at state-level, we would have never gone to meet them or answered their calls," he added.

"If the alliance is at a centre level only, we will consider it ahead of Lok Sabha polls. We will behave the way Congress does," Yadav concluded.

Along with MP Congress, Yadav also targeted UP Congress chief Ajay Rai who has been claiming for a while that Congress is ready to contest on all 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Yadav questioned whether Rai was present in Patna or Mumbai INDI Alliance meets and suggested that he doesn't have any authority to comment on alliance matters.

Earlier, Yadav had said in Kanpur that the SP would fight the 2024 elections on its own strength and Congress needs to see at what level the alliance is, Live Hindustan reported.

Responding to Yadav, Ajay Rai said that Congress would contest the Lok Sabha elections based on its resolution, not on the conditions of the SP president.