The Congress sees a design behind the speculation of post-poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari has flatly refused such a possibility seeing the very intention behind such speculations as an attempt to “confuse voters”.
A CWC member, who played an important role in shortlisting the party nominees in UP on Wednesday, said, “We will not give or take support from the SP after the elections.”
The message is loud and clear. The party is fully prepared to take on the SP, BSP and the BJP combine on governance and corruption issues.
The SP has had no history of winning the state Assembly elections on its own. In fact, its chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s attempts to win over the Lodh community by aligning with the hero of the Ayodhya movement Kalnay Singh and Sakshi Maharaj proved counter- productive.
The BSP supremo, UP chief minister Mayawati, had atleast succeeded in winning over upper castes and came to power on her own last time but the SP confined in consolidating the Muslim-Yadav combination. “The SP, BSP lacked modern approach, their politics has never been inclusive. If Yadavs’ domination alienated other backward castes and most-backward castes, Mayawati’s rule has shown her lack of vision for development and love for parliamentary institutions,” Congress leaders said.
The Congress does not want to give any chance to the SP and the BSP to consolidate their political constituency.
Kurmi leaders are leaving the SP and prominent leaders such as Rasheed Masood, Saleem Shewani and Raj Babbar have quit the SP.
Among the upper castes, Brahmins and Thakurs do not see the SP as a natural party while SCs have never been with the Mulayam Singh Yadav led party, they pointed out.