Akhilesh Yadav’s party- Samajwadi Party (SP) and Mayawati’s party Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had joined forces to pull down BJP in the Uttar Pradesh by-polls. Ans the alliance had won in the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister’s bastion Gorkhapur.
But will the SP-BSP alliance continue into the 2019 elections?
Apparently yes, according to the SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. Stoked by the successful election results, Yadav has decided to continue the alliance even is he has to sit in the passenger seat.
“Our alliance with BSP will continue, in 2019 even if we have to give up a few seats we will do it. We have to ensure the BJP is defeated,” Akhilesh Yadav said at a public meeting on Sunday in Mainpuri.
Last month, an opposition-backed candidate bagged the Kairana parliamentary seat in the third setback in a row for the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh.
Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP) and Mayawati’s BSP had joined forces to snatch two BJP strongholds earlier – Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s Gorakhpur and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya’s Phulpur.
The victories have been taken by the opposition as a workable template for a similar alliance to take on the BJP in 2019.
