Seat Battle: Congress Reportedly Demands 200 Seats from Samajwadi Party in UP
Congress is basing its claim on improved 2024 Lok Sabha results and a six-point strategy as seat-sharing talks continue, sources said.
- On Friday, Congress reportedly demanded over 200 seats for next year's Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, sources said, complicating seat-sharing negotiations with the Samajwadi Party.
- Congress bases its demand on six wins in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and believes organizational strength has vastly increased under the nationwide 'Sangathan Srijan Abhiyan'.
- In 2017, Congress contested approximately 116 seats and won seven in alliance with the Samajwadi Party; it secured only two during the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
- Samajwadi Party leader Ramashankar Rajbhar told ANI that the INDIA alliance will stay united, yet SP is unlikely to grant Congress such a large share of the 403 available seats.
- Congress national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is monitoring seat-sharing discussions with Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, with sources hoping negotiations will conclude by November 15.
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Seat Battle: Congress Reportedly Demands 200 Seats from Samajwadi Party in UP
<p>According to sources cited in the report, the Congress party has reportedly demanded 200 seats from the Samajwadi Party (SP) for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, triggering fresh speculation over seat-sharing negotiations within the opposition alliance. Uttar Pradesh has 403 Assembly seats, meaning the reported demand would give Congress a claim to nearly half of the constituencies. Just three days earlier, Priyanka Gandhi had r…
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