Trouble in INDIA: Congress leaders are involved with BJP, they are fooling others, alleges Akhilesh Yadav

Hitting out at Congress for ‘betraying’ Samajwadi Party (SP) and INDIA alliance partners, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav today said that Congress leaders are in cahoots with the BJP and Congress is fooling the other INDIA alliance parties. Akhilesh went on to say that he would not have trusted the grand old party if he had known that “Congress would betray them”.He further said he was not aware that the INDIA alliance was formed at the national level to defeat the BJP and the alliance partners are not fighting together at the state level. He said this while replying to reporters questions about his reaction on Congress Uttar Pradesh chief Ajay Rai’s statement that if Congress had fought Ghosi, they (SP) might have lost the seat.

“The state chief has no authority. He was not there in the meeting held at Patna, Mumbai. What does he know about the INDIA alliance?… These people from Congress are siding or involved with the BJP,” the SP leader said while talking to reporters in Sitapur.

“These people from Congress are involved with the BJP. If I had known that the alliance is not on the state level then I would not have sent SP leaders to Digvijaya Singh…I would not have trusted them if I had known that people from Congress would betray us,” Akhilesh asked.”Why did Kamal Nath and Digvijay Singh held a meeting with SP leaders till 1 am if there was no alliance on state level. If I knew they would betray us, I would not have trusted their word. They are fooling other parties. I was told six seats have been kept aside for us and discussions will be held on those,” Akhilesh said.

The Congress’s UP unit chief Ajay Rai has asked the SP to withdraw from MP in favour of the grand old party as the Akhilesh Yadav-led party, he said, did not have any base there.

Earlier on Tuesday, while speaking to reporters about the allocation of seats in the INDIA alliance in Madhya Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav said that the Congress party should clarify on who will get how many seats in the alliance and whether the alliance will be at a national level or on a state level.

The Samajwadi Party, which is aspiring to expand the party beyond Uttar Pradesh to get national status, has released a list of nine candidates for the November 17 assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh while the Congress on Sunday released its first list 144 candidates for the state.