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Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party prepoll pact talks in final stages

| Wednesday | 18th July, 2018

Mayawati has not contested in Lok Sabha elections since 2004. However, the share of seats to the Congress and its position in the alliance has not been finalized yet though both SP and BSP have agreed to support Congress president Rahul Gandhi and ex-president Sonia Gandhi in their constituencies - Amethi and Rae Bareli. After a prolonged discussion between the top leadership of the two parties and their trusted aides, a seat-sharing formula has been drawn on the basis of factors like areas of influence, traditional stronghold, big constituencies, performance of the two parties in the past two elections. LUCKNOW: Much away from the media limelight, high-level talks between the top leadership of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party have reportedly entered the final phase to firm an alliance for collectively taking on the ruling BJP in 2019 general elections.Reliable sources reveal that SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP supremo Mayawati are in constant touch and have agreed accommodate each other's wishes and not to be rigid on particular constituencies. "The growing chorus for an alliance with the BSP - in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan with Congress, in Haryana with INLD and in UP with SP - has given wings to the prime ministerial ambitions Mayawati, who wants the alliances to be on a rock-solid foundation," reveals a top-ranking BSP functionary.

LUCKNOW: Much away from the media limelight, high-level talks between the top leadership of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party have reportedly entered the final phase to firm an alliance for collectively taking on the ruling BJP in 2019 general elections.Reliable sources reveal that SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP supremo Mayawati are in constant touch and have agreed accommodate each other's wishes and not to be rigid on particular constituencies. The SP has reportedly agreed to give space to the RLD, Nishad Party and also to BJP ally SBSP whose leader Om Prakash Rajbhar has been showing signs of dissent.Besides, in order to make the alliance more powerful and star-studded, it has also reportedly been decided that Akhilesh, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, other members of the Yadav clan and BSP supremo, Mayawati herself would contest. Mayawati has not contested in Lok Sabha elections since 2004. However, the share of seats to the Congress and its position in the alliance has not been finalized yet though both SP and BSP have agreed to support Congress president Rahul Gandhi and ex-president Sonia Gandhi in their constituencies - Amethi and Rae Bareli."The growing chorus for an alliance with the BSP - in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan with Congress, in Haryana with INLD and in UP with SP - has given wings to the prime ministerial ambitions Mayawati, who wants the alliances to be on a rock-solid foundation," reveals a top-ranking BSP functionary. After a prolonged discussion between the top leadership of the two parties and their trusted aides, a seat-sharing formula has been drawn on the basis of factors like areas of influence, traditional stronghold, big constituencies, performance of the two parties in the past two elections."The BSP has a strong presence in the western UP, mainly Ghaziabad, Gautam Budh Nagar, Aligarh, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Saharanpur and adjoining constituencies, while we have our traditional strongholds in and around Etawah, which include Firozabad, Mainpuri, Kannauj, Farrukhabad Etah and adjoining areas," explained a senior SP leader, adding "Similarly, SP also had good performance and presence in eastern UP - Faizabad , Basti, Balrampur, Gonda, Azamgarh, Ballia, Ghazipur and Mau.""The Oudh region, however, poses a challenge to both SP and BSP as the two parties do not have their strongholds here Congress can play an important role here, if the grand old party is included in the alliance," he explains.The leadership of the two parties is also wary of BJP's repeated bid to break the alliance to make the contest in 2019 a triangular one to get the benefit of division of votes.

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