“Our aim is to defeat BJP in all 80 seats of Uttar Pradesh”: SP leader Rajendra Chaudhary

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India]: Samajwadi Party’s aim is to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in all 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh, party leader Rajendra Chaudhary said on Wednesday.

While speaking to reporters ahead of the national executive meeting of the Samajwadi Party here, Chaudhary said that in light of the next year’s Lok Sabha elections, the party’s chief Akhilesh Yadav has given the slogan of ‘PDA’ (Pichade-Dalit-Alpsankhyak).

“Akhilesh Yadav will be addressing the party’s national executive meeting over the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He has given the slogan of ‘PDA’ (Pichade-Dalit-Alpsankhyak). In UP, SP is continuously working to strengthen the party. It is the Samajwadi Party’s aim to defeat BJP in all 80 seats in the state,” the SP leader said.

The Samajwadi Party’s statement to defeat the ruling BJP in the 80 Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh holds significance as it comes amidst the SP and Congress’s failure to arrive at a seat-sharing agreement in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, scheduled to be held on November 17.

Both the allies of the INDIA bloc came at loggerheads in Uttar Pradesh with Akhilesh Yadav taking ‘Chirkut’ jibe at Congress’ state unit chief Ajay Rai.

Yadav, upset over the alleged seat snub in MP polls, had said, “I want to tell the Congress, don’t talk about our party through your ‘Chirkut’ leaders.”

He further said he was unaware of the fact that the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance has been formed at the national level to defeat the BJP and the alliance partners are not fighting together at the state level.

“If Congress didn’t want to give seats (in MP), then they should have said it before. Today, SP is fighting only on seats. Now after Madhya Pradesh, I know that the INDIA alliance is for the (parliamentary) elections at the national level.

If Congress continues to behave like this, then who will stand with them? If we will fight against the BJP with confusion in our minds, then we won’t succeed,” he had said.