UP Assembly Elections: Akhilesh Yadav Hints Tie Up With Uncle Shivpal, 'In Talks With Smaller Parties For Alliance'

SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav made clear that his party will not be making alliance with any major party in assembly polls.

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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday hinted on electoral tie-up with his estranged uncle Shivpal and promised a cabinet berth for the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party founder in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. "We will adjust that party too. Jaswantnagar is his (Shivpal Yadav’s) seat and the Samajwadi Party vacated the seat for him. In the coming times, we will make their leader a cabinet minister, and what other adjustment is needed?" Akhilesh said, as quoted by PTI. Akhilesh Yadav's estranged uncle Shivpal Yadav has also expressed his desire for an alliance with the Samajwadi Party in the past. In the 2017 state elections, he was elected from the Jaswantnagar assembly constituency but later floated a new political party -- Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia)-- and contested Lok Sabha elections from Firozabad in 2019. Speaking to the reporters on Saturday, Akhilesh Yadav also said that his party is in talks with smaller parties but won’t be making an alliance with any major ones. The SP Chief made clear that his party will not be making alliance with any major party in assembly polls. He has also ruled out any possibility of any kind of alliance with the BSP. Speaking of the 2017 elections, the grand old Congress and SP had announced an alliance in the assembly election where Congress won 7 seats, SP won 47 while Bharatiya Janata Party won 312 seats.