Senior Congress chief Salman Khurshid on Friday expressed his dissatisfaction after Farrukhabad Lok Sabha seat went to Samajwadi Party (SP) whereas finalising the seat-sharing cope with the Congress for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

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While expressing his disgruntlement, he requested what number of occasions he must show his relationship with the constituency. While sounding in a rebelling tone, he mentioned that he by no means bowed right down to the choices of destiny and this time too he will not bow down.

“How many tests will my relationship with Farrukhabad have to face? The question is not about me but about the fate of all of us, about the future generations. I never bowed down to the decisions of fate. I can break, but I will not bow down. You promise to accompany me, I will keep singing the songs..,” he mentioned in Hindi in a submit on X.

Salman Khurshid, son of Congress veteran and former exterior affairs minister Khurshed Alam Khan and maternal grandson of the third President of India Zakir Husain, belongs to the Farrukhabad space.

A lawyer and a author by career, Khurshid was elected as an MP from Farrukhabad in 1991 and 2009. His father additionally represented the constituency within the 12 months 1984. Khurshid has additionally served because the minister of exterior affairs, minister of minority affairs and minister of regulation and justice within the Manmohan Singh-led UPA-II union authorities.

Meanwhile, as per the seat-sharing settlement between the Congress and the SP introduced for the upcoming elections, the SP is slated to contest on 63 seats and the Congress on 17 out of 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh.

The Congress will contest Rae Bareli, Amethi, Varanasi, Kanpur City, Fatehpur Sikri, Bansgaon, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Maharajganj, Amroha, Jhansi, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Mathura, Sitapur, Barabanki and Deoria, mentioned SP state unit chief Naresh Uttam Patel.

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RaeBareli, Amethi and Varanasi are three essential seats that Yadav ceded to the Congress. While Varanasi is the constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amethi is the one which Rahul Gandhi in 2019 misplaced to BJP’s Smriti Irani. RaeBareli was Sonia Gandhi’s seat till she vacated it for well being causes and shifted to the Rajya Sabha.

In the 2019 polls, BJP had received 62 seats, whereas the SP, which fought the elections in alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party, had received 5 seats.