'Never Bowed Before Decisions Of Fate': Salman Khurshid After Farrukhabad LS Seat Goes To SP

Salman Khurshid expressed his dissatisfaction and asked as to how many times he would have to prove his relationship with the constituency, Farrukhabad.

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid expressed dissatisfaction on Friday after the Farrukhabad Lok Sabha seat was allocated to the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the seat-sharing agreement with the Congress for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

In expressing his discontent, he repeatedly questioned the need to prove his connection with the constituency. Adopting a defiant tone, he stated that he had never yielded to the whims of fate and reiterated that he would not do so this time either.

"How many tests will my relationship with Farrukhabad have to face? The question is not about me but about the fate of all of us and future generations. I never bowed down to the decisions of fate. I can break, but I will not bow down. You promise to accompany me, I will keep singing the songs..," he said in Hindi in a post on X.

Salman Khurshid, the son of Congress veteran and former external affairs minister Khurshed Alam Khan and maternal grandson of the third President of India Zakir Husain, hails from the Farrukhabad area.

A lawyer and writer by profession, Khurshid was elected as an MP from Farrukhabad in 1991 and 2009. His father also represented the constituency in 1984. Khurshid has also served as the minister of external affairs, minister of minority affairs, and minister of law and justice in the Manmohan Singh-led UPA-II union government.

Meanwhile, as per the seat-sharing agreement between the Congress and the SP announced for the upcoming elections, the SP is set to contest 63 seats, while the Congress will contest 17 out of 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh.

The Congress will contest Rae Bareli, Amethi, Varanasi, Kanpur City, Fatehpur Sikri, Bansgaon, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Maharajganj, Amroha, Jhansi, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Mathura, Sitapur, Barabanki, and Deoria, as per SP state unit chief Naresh Uttam Patel.

Rae Bareli, Amethi, and Varanasi are three crucial seats that Yadav conceded to the Congress. Varanasi is the constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amethi is the one Rahul Gandhi lost to BJP's Smriti Irani in 2019, and Rae Bareli was Sonia Gandhi's seat until she vacated it for health reasons and shifted to the Rajya Sabha.

In the 2019 polls, BJP secured victory in 62 seats, while the SP, which contested the elections in alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party, won five seats.