INDIA bloc partners Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) have finalised seat-sharing in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections. Congress will contest from 17 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The state has 80 Lok Sabha seats. SP and other alliance partners will contest the rest of the 63 seats in the state.
The SP and the Congress are partners in the INDIA bloc formed by opposition parties to take on the BJP in the upcoming general elections. Among the 17 seats on which the Congress will contest in UP are Raebareli and Amethi, once considered pocket boroughs of the party, and Varanasi which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency.
Congress to contest from these 17 seats:
- Raebareli
- Amethi
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Saharanpur
- Prayagraj
- Maharajganj
- Varanasi
- Amroha
- Jhansi
- Bulandshahr
- Ghaziabad
- Mathura
- Sitapur
- Barabanki
- Kanpur
- Bansgaon
- Deoria
The seat-sharing announcement was made at a joint press conference here by SP state chief Naresh Uttam Patel, SP national general secretary Rajendra Chaudhary, Congress state president Ajay Rai and AICC in-charge of UP Avinash Pande.
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