Intense maneuvers were yet again witnessed, in the run up to the Lok Sabha elections, on Friday, as powerful faction-heads continued to push for a greater piece of political meat. In Uttar Pradesh - the state Congress unit, miffed with prospective allies SP, demanded that the party go it alone in the forthcoming LS polls.
The UP state Congress unit is reported to have formally conveyed to party chief Sonia Gandhi that ‘going it alone’ in the Lok Sabha polls would be the best option for the party, in UP, than ‘surrendering’ to the ‘unfair’ means and ‘pressure tactics’ employed by the SP.
Speaking to the media UP state Congress unit chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi confirmed the shift in strategy saying: “The Congress co-ordination committee has formally conveyed to the party president that the state unit is ready to contest all 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP.”
Attributing the move to The UPCC has also forwarded a list of three Congress probables for each of the state’s 80 parliamentary constituencies.
Analysts say a four-way contest in the state is sure to help the Mayawati led BSP, who governs UP and is planning on winning 50-odd LS seats to ensure she emerges the most powerful leader on the national firmament after the elections.
AICC general secretary in-charge for UP, Digvijay Singh, and the SP leadership have engaged in repeated skirmishes over fine print of a pre-poll alliance they must work out to arrest the BSP onslaught.
Attributing the decision to safeguard long term Congress interests Joshi added that her party was not willing to trade in the labour of the entire UP Congress, especially that of Rahul Gandhi, for the revival of the party.”
She says the Congress leadership has been urged to “settle the matter by January 26.”
The UP state Congress unit is reported to have formally conveyed to party chief Sonia Gandhi that ‘going it alone’ in the Lok Sabha polls would be the best option for the party, in UP, than ‘surrendering’ to the ‘unfair’ means and ‘pressure tactics’ employed by the SP.
Speaking to the media UP state Congress unit chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi confirmed the shift in strategy saying: “The Congress co-ordination committee has formally conveyed to the party president that the state unit is ready to contest all 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP.”
Attributing the move to The UPCC has also forwarded a list of three Congress probables for each of the state’s 80 parliamentary constituencies.
Analysts say a four-way contest in the state is sure to help the Mayawati led BSP, who governs UP and is planning on winning 50-odd LS seats to ensure she emerges the most powerful leader on the national firmament after the elections.
AICC general secretary in-charge for UP, Digvijay Singh, and the SP leadership have engaged in repeated skirmishes over fine print of a pre-poll alliance they must work out to arrest the BSP onslaught.
Attributing the decision to safeguard long term Congress interests Joshi added that her party was not willing to trade in the labour of the entire UP Congress, especially that of Rahul Gandhi, for the revival of the party.”
She says the Congress leadership has been urged to “settle the matter by January 26.”
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