Akhilesh Yadav has indicated he’s but to be invited to the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra

New Delhi:

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has indicated the door to the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra has not been opened for him but. His feedback come even because the Congress and the Samajwadi Party are holding seat-sharing talks in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha election due in two months.

Both the Congress and the Samajwadi Party are a part of the newly fashioned Opposition bloc INDIA.

Mr Yadav, nevertheless, mentioned he’s but to get any invitation for the Congress yatra led by Rahul Gandhi, which entered West Bengal, then went to Bihar, after which returned to Bengal.

“The problem is that we don’t get invited to many big events… So how do we ask for an invitation ourselves?” Mr Yadav advised reporters when requested whether or not he would be a part of the yatra when it enters UP.

When identified that the highest Samajwadi Party chief was invited to the Ram temple consecration ceremony, he mentioned, “We asked that (invitation) ourselves… After we informed them that our house was cleaned with Ganga jal (water), then we heard that they have decided to invite us.”

When the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra rolled into Bengal on January 25 morning, it adopted a brand new path to go rapidly by the northern districts earlier than it entered neighbouring Bihar.

The yatra re-entered Bengal solely this week to go to the normal Congress strongholds of Malda and Murshidabad.

The last-minute change in plans was seen because the Congress and Rahul Gandhi reacting to the bombshell dropped by Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that her celebration Trinamool Congress will not share seats with the Congress for the final election.

Ms Banerjee had additionally mentioned she is reviewing her celebration’s membership of the INDIA bloc.

The Samajwadi Party has introduced candidates on 11 seats, a few of which have been being claimed by the Congress.

Samajwadi Party chief Ram Gopal Yadav right now mentioned they’ve declared 16 seats. “We will declare more seats in a couple of days. So on and so forth. The Congress and the Samajwadi Party have reached a final agreement in Uttar Pradesh,” Mr Yadav mentioned.

This unilateral announcement of first giving 16 seats to Congress after which declaring candidates on 11 seats has strained the ties between the 2 events. The Congress says that the seat sharing talks haven’t concluded but

Samajwadi Party chief and Akhilesh Yadav’s spouse Dimple Yadav mentioned there shouldn’t be any additional delay in deciding candidates for the Lok Sabha election. “This is an important election. It is an election to save the Constitution. There should not be any further delay,” she mentioned.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati introduced in January that her celebration will go solo within the Lok Sabha polls, however didn’t rule out a post-poll alliance.