Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh) [India], October 5 (ANI): Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad on Monday said there are no differences within the INDIA bloc and asserted that the opposition stands united and firm with the larger objective of protecting the Constitution and safeguarding reservations.
Speaking to ANI, Prasad said the alliance is united and working towards a broader objective.
“There are no differences within the INDIA alliance. The alliance stands united and firm... It will remove the BJP from power," he said.
Prasad further said senior leaders of the alliance had come together for a larger cause, while other leaders had also joined the alliance with important objectives.
“Our responsible leaders, whether it is Congress leader Rahul Gandhi or our leader Akhilesh Yadav, have come together for a larger cause. Other leaders have also joined this alliance with a very important objective—to protect the Constitution of India, safeguard reservations, conduct a caste census and work towards forming a broader alliance,” he added.
As Uttar Pradesh is heading for Assembly polls in 2027, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday stressed that the larger objective of the alliance should be electoral victory rather than which party is getting how many seats.
In a post on X, Yadav said that when the objective is clear and alliance partners work together, the journey towards the goal becomes easier.
"When the goal is clear, hand in hand we stand; when the gaze is fixed on the destination, the journey becomes easy!" Yadav said.
He further said that the number of seats allotted to individual parties should not become the central issue for alliance partners.
"The big thing isn't how many seats the alliance gets or which seat goes to whom—the big thing is that we all must ensure that the victory belongs to the alliance," he said.
"Let us repeat again: It's not about the seats, it's about the victory," the SP chief added.
Yadav said the proposed alliance victory would be larger than the interests of individual parties and linked the effort to issues including communalism, democracy, the Constitution, reservations and social harmony.
"This victory will be greater than the parties in our alliance—it will be the victory of all of us, of that united effort that persists in struggle so that communalism may never raise its head again, so that BJP's influence may not touch democracy, the Constitution, or reservations, and so that the country's harmony may bloom once more, and the nation's progress and prosperity may smile again," he said.
The SP and Congress had fought the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh as allies under the INDIA bloc. The Samajwadi Party (SP) won 37 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, emerging as the single-largest party in Uttar Pradesh and the third-largest party overall in the 18th Lok Sabha. Congress holds 6 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats. (ANI)
“No differences within INDIA alliance”: SP's Awadhesh Prasad says Oppn "united & firm" in removing BJP from power
