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Congress will contest all 80 seats of UP in upcoming Lok Sabha polls: Ghulam Nabi Azad

“If any secular party competent to fight the BJP, willing to go with us, we will accommodate them,” the Congress general secretary said.

‘Truly broad-based’ alliance will be formed in UP: Chidambaram hopeful for rethink on SP-BSP coalition

Chidambaram said the goal was to defeat the BJP and expressed hope that all secular, liberal parties would come together to fight the elections.

Congress will fight 2019 polls in UP with full force: Rahul Gandhi on SP-BSP alliance

He said the Congress party might give a surprise or two in the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh "about what the party is capable of doing and to mobilise people."

'Respect BSP-SP's decision, Congress will fight with its full capacity in UP': Rahul Gandhi on Grand Alliance

Addressing a gathering in Dubai, the Congress scion said; "Congress party has tremendous to offer to the people of Uttar Pradesh. I have tremendous respect for the leaders of BSP and SP."

LS polls: SP, BSP join hands in UP; out-of-pact Rahul resolves to fight elections with 'full capacity'

Gearing up to corner the Modi government in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi party and Bahujan Samaj Party announced their tie-up in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday while keeping Congress out of the pact.

SP, BSP announce alliance for Lok Sabha polls sans Congress, to contest 38 seats each in UP

Out of the 80 seats in the state, BSP and SP will contest on 38 each, two seats will go to smaller allies, while Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, will go uncontested by the alliance.

SP-BSP alliance for Lok Sabha polls: BJP slams it as casteist, opportunistic partnership

SP-BSP alliance for Lok Sabha polls: UP CM Yogi Adityanath has termed the alliance between Akhilesh and Mayawati as casteist.

Opinion | Rajat Sharma on why SP-BSP alliance will pose a major challenge to BJP in UP

The combination of caste factors between Yadavs, Muslims and Dalits is going to make the alliance a formidable change, though BJP president Amit Shah said on Friday that in politics, chemistry matters more than mathematics.

SP-BSP to fight 38 seats each out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP; Congress excluded from alliance

Addressing a joint press conference with Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati said that the SP-BSP alliance was aimed at defeating BJP and company in 2019 general elections.

LS polls 2019: Will SP-BSP alliance pose a threat for BJP? In 2014, saffron party was more than a match for both

Don't need Congress, SP-BSP alliance strong enough to defeat BJP in UP elections: Kiranmoy Nanda

His comments came two days after BSP supremo Mayawati and SP leader Akhilesh Yadav moved closer to finalise a seat-sharing formula, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. 

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Sensing alliance between SP-BSP, here’s the advice Amit Shah gives to BJP workers

Lok Sabha elections 2019: The BJP won 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 general elections and 312 of the 403 Assembly seats in 2017.