The Samajwadi Party and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) on Friday indicated that there would be no problem over seat-sharing for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls and the leader of the small outfit said he was ready for any “sacrifice”. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav had announced the alliance on Thursday after his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav’s meeting with PSPL.
On Friday, Bade Yadav held a meeting of his party workers, recalling that he had already told them that in the case of an alliance, his party might get fewer seats from which to contest. We will fight the elections together and if need be, we will even sacrifice for it. He said that the BJP government will have to be removed and together we will form the government.
In an interaction with media persons, Akhilesh Yadav also indicated that seat sharing will not be a problem, and is almost fixed. He said that this time the SP has announced an alliance only after considering seat-sharing.
“People are ready to oust BJP from power and are looking at SP as an alternative,” he said. He said that while working towards bringing regional parties together in UP, the SP decided to bring Shivpal Yadav’s party into an alliance.
Ahead of the uncle-nephew reunion, Shivpal Yadav had said that his party was preparing to field candidates for 100 seats in the elections to the 403-member assembly. With the coming together of the family, enthusiasm is visible among the workers of both the parties.
Hundreds of supporters of both the parties had gathered outside Shivpal Yadav’s house on Thursday, raising slogans of ‘uncle-bhatija zindabad’. SP sources said that Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav was present at Shivpal Yadav’s house before Akhilesh Yadav reached there for Thursday’s meeting.
The relationship between the uncle and the nephew soured in 2016 after Akhilesh Yadav sacked Shivpal Yadav from the post of minister while he was the chief minister. Akhilesh Yadav became the SP president in January 2017 and his uncle formed his party in 2018.
The SP and PSPL came together in Etawah during the panchayat elections held a few months ago, where they won 18 out of 24 wards and the BJP got only one seat. The reunification could also help prevent any erosion in their support among Yadavs, who are said to make up about 9 per cent of the state’s population.
Projecting itself aggressively against the BJP in the 2022 UP elections, the SP has already forged an alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal and Om Prakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP).
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