TOP 25: BSP-JCC announce alliance for Chhattisgarh polls

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Thursday announced an alliance with the Congress Chhattisgarh">Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (JCC) for the upcoming Chhattisgarh state assembly elections. JCC president Ajit Jogi has been nominated as the Chief Ministerial candidate.
Addressing a press conference, Mayawati said, "With elections impending in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, a lot of rumours about BSP have been doing the rounds in the media regarding an alliance for the elections in these states. I have always said that we will form an alliance with a party that gives us a respectable number of seats."