Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) chief Mayawati have called a joint press conference in Lucknow on Saturday where they are expected to formally announce their alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Today a statement was issued by the National secretary of SP, Rajendra Chaudhary as well as BSP, Satish Chandra Mishra about the joint press conference. “Yes, what else could the joint press conference will be about since the alliance has been in works since March last year”, they said.
It was in March last year that both the parties first publically spoke about the alliance and then they experimented with it in three Lok Sabha bypolls and one state assembly bypolls. The BJP lost all those seats to the alliance. The SP-BSP alliance can be a formidable opposition to the BJP which won 71 Lok Sabha seats in UP in 2014.
According to the sources, the two leaders, in a recent meeting in Delhi, discussed the modalities of seat sharing for the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.