Will continue alliance with BSP even if it costs us seats: Akhilesh Yadav
Agra, June 11 (IBNS): Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has said that his party will continue the alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party, even it costs seats, to ensure BJP’s defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
According to media reports, the former Uttar Prades Chief Minister, who was in Mainpuri on Sunday to attend a programme, said his party was willing to contest fewer seats if it helped to ensure BJP’s defeat.
"Our alliance with BSP will continue, In 2019 even if we have to give up a few seats we will do it. We have to ensure the BJP is defeated," he said.
Though now in alliance, the SP and BSP had been bitter rivals in state politics for a long time.
, “Our motive is to win elections against BJP and for this, we are ready to ally with BSP," he said.
Last month, an opposition-backed candidate won the by-election for Kairana parliamentary seat, dealing a blow to the ruling BJP.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and Mayawati's BSP had joined forces to snatch two BJP strongholds earlier -- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya's Phulpur.
Image: Akhilesh Yadav Facebook page
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