Congress decides not to contest UP bypolls, says ‘will work for INDIA bloc’

“We volition enactment for the INDIA bloc and enactment and enactment to guarantee a triumph for INDIA bloc candidates connected the 9 seats,” Pande said.

The Indian Express had reported connected Tuesday that the Congress whitethorn enactment distant from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly bypolls arsenic it does not privation to contention the 2 seats that its INDIA bloc state Samajwadi Party (SP) is offering, citing “unfavourable caste equations”.

The Congress had alleged the SP did not travel “alliance dharma” and unilaterally announced candidates for 7 of the 9 seats wherever bypolls volition beryllium held connected November 13. Congress insiders claimed the enactment refused to contention Khair and Ghaziabad.

As per sources successful the Congress, the determination was made aft a speech implicit the telephone betwixt the Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and SP main Akhilesh Yadav precocious connected Wednesday night.

In a station connected X connected Wednesday night, Yadav had said that “it is not astir seats but astir victory”.

“Under this strategy, the associated candidates of ‘India Alliance’ volition contention connected each 9 seats connected the Samajwadi Party’s predetermination awesome ‘cycle’,” helium said. “Congress and Samajwadi Party are agreed and lasting enarthrosis to enarthrosis for a large victory. India Alliance is going to constitute a caller section of triumph successful this by-election,” helium added.

“With the coming unneurotic of the apical enactment of the Congress Party and the workers astatine the booth level, the powerfulness of the Samajwadi Party has accrued manifold. With this unprecedented practice and support, each idiosyncratic of ‘India Alliance’ connected each 9 assembly seats has been filled with caller vigor with the resoluteness to win,” helium further said.

“This is an predetermination to prevention the country’s constitution, harmony and the grant of the PDA. That is wherefore our entreaty to everyone is that not adjacent a azygous ballot should beryllium reduced, not adjacent a azygous ballot should beryllium divided,” helium had said.

While the bypolls volition beryllium held successful Sisamau, Katehri, Kundarki, Karhal, Khair, Phulpur, Ghaziabad, Manjhwa and Meerapur successful Muzaffarnagar connected November 13 and counting of votes volition instrumentality spot connected November 23.