Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav faces backlash

HYDERABAD: BJP leader Ramchander Rao, on Wednesday took aim at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s statement on seat sharing among parties of the INDIA alliance stating that bickering in the Opposition grouping has already started to surface.

“With elections to five states and parliamentary elections due in few months, bickering in the INDIA alliance have already surfaced, Akhilesh Yadav has already questioned whether the INDIA alliance is at the state level or national level,” Rao said. The Telangana leader further said that Opposition alliance is not able to take a unified stance for the upcoming assembly elections in five states and partners in the INDIA have now differences with the Congress party.

“For sure the INDIA alliance will not be able to put up a united fight,” said Rao who noted that the bickering among members of the Opposition will prove that the alliance can’t fight with the BJP. Reacting to Akhilesh Yadav’s statement, RJD leader Shivanand Tiwari also said that it will be difficult to defeat the BJP if the alliance leaders are not patient.

“Akhilesh Yadav should not forget that Congress has footprint in entire country. He should also understand that considering the current state of Indian politics, it will be really difficult to defeat BJP if all the parties, including ours do not show patience, without which we cannot put up a tough fight against BJP,” the RJD leader said.

On being asked if regional parties should compromise to some extent at the national level, the former Rajya Sabha member said, “There is no doubt that regional and national parties are different. Our party RJD has contested from several places but our land and roots are in Bihar, similarly, the roots of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s politics have been in Uttar Pradesh, they now have an MLA in Mumbai as well but we can’t say that it (Samajwadi Party) has the position of a national party.”

“If we (RJD and SP) have our base and roots outside of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh then we should get the opportunity to contest there but we cannot insist on an alliance at the national level,” said Tiwari.

Meanwhile, Congress leader Rakesh Sinha said that questions regarding seat sharing on “how, when and where it will happen” were not appropriate at present. (ANI)

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