Politics
SP MP says Congress won 6 UP seats via alliance
Hindustan Times··4 Oct
Samajwadi Party MP Shiv Pal Singh Patel said Rahul Gandhi skipped Amethi for Raebareli in 2024 because he was scared. Patel told PTI that Akhilesh Yadav persuaded him to contest. He said Congress won six Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha seats and SP won 37. Anshu Awasthi asked SP to curb such remarks. Akhilesh told leaders to keep talks internal.
Prism
What It Means For You
- The comments land during SP-Congress talks on Uttar Pradesh assembly seat sharing due early next year.
- Patel capped any Congress ask at 50 assembly seats in alliance talks, he told PTI.
- Akhilesh Yadav issued a public instruction limiting open commentary on the talks.
What's Happening
- Patel claimed that without an SP alliance Congress would have won no UP Lok Sabha seats in 2024.
- He said Gandhi agreed to contest only after Akhilesh warned he would field his own candidate.
- Anshu Awasthi said Patel had crossed his limits and that the INDIA bloc made him an MP.
The 2024 numbers behind the spat
- In 2024, SP won 37 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh and Congress won six.
- The BJP won 33 seats in the state and the NDA 36, according to the report.
- In the 403-member assembly, Congress has two MLAs and SP has 101.
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