Samajwadi Party has agreed to allot to 105 seats to the Congress in the coming assembly elections, sealing the negotiations that threatened to fall off, reported news agency ANI.
The Congress had rejected the SP’s initial offer of 80 seats, and wanted at least 120. The SP had later increased its offer to 100.
On Saturday, Congress strategist Prashant Kishor flew to Lucknow to meet Chief Minister and SP national president Akhilesh Yadav, who will release his party’s manifesto on Sunday morning, reported Indian Express.
Uttar Pradesh has 403 Assembly constituencies where Akhilesh's party would be contesting the majority of seats. Leaders from the Congress and Samjwadi Party insist that the main task in Uttar Pradesh is to stop the Narendra Modi-led BJP from coming to power.
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In the 2015 Assembly elections in Bihar, Congress had joined hands with JD(U) and RJD to form a grand alliance, which caused a major upset for BJP-led NDA which had won 31 of the 40 seats in 2014 Lok Sabha polls in Bihar.
