I.N.D.I.A bloc partners Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress have announced a tie-up for the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
In Uttar Pradesh, the SP left 17 out of the 80 seats in the State for the Congress. The Congress will contest Raebareli and Amethi, once considered pocket boroughs of the party, and Varanasi which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency.
The seat-sharing announcement was made at a joint press conference here by SP state chief Naresh Uttam Patel, SP national general secretary Rajendra Chaudhary, Congress state president Ajay Rai and AICC in-charge of UP Avinash Pande.
Pande said the Congress will contest on 17 seats, while the SP and other alliance partners will contest from the rest of the 63 seats.