{"id":502517,"date":"2024-02-21T16:11:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=502517"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T10:49:14","slug":"akhilesh-yadav-sp-congress-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/akhilesh-yadav-sp-congress-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Akhilesh Yadav says all is well that ends well on alliance with Congress in UP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former UP Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party head Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday confirmed alliance with Congress party in Uttar Pradesh and dismissed speculation of a strain in ties with Congress, saying all is well that ends well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On being asked about his absence from the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the SP chief asserted saying that, all is well that ends well and the alliance was on in UP. He added saying, there was no conflict. He further assured that everything related to seat sharing will be out soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Moradabad, UP: On asking why he was not present twice for the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav says, &quot;All is well that ends well&#8230; Yes, there will be an alliance. There is no conflict. Everything will be out and clear soon&#8230; All is well that\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fOmkbYUm9B\">pic.twitter.com\/fOmkbYUm9B<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1760225408664899715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Yadav was scheduled to join Gandhi&#8217;s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Amethi and Rae Bareli but he did not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After seat-sharing between Samajwadi Party and Congress in Uttar Pradesh is finalised, Congress UP in-charge Avinash Pande and party&#8217;s state unit president Ajay Rai will hold a joint press conference in Lucknow today evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state units of both parties will hold a joint press conference in the evening to formally announce the alliance. As per the reports, the Samajwadi Party may give 17-19 seats to the Congress&nbsp;in UP as part of their seat-sharing agreement. There are 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the reports, the strain between the two parties ended after Priyanka Gandhi spoke with Akhilesh Yadav about the alliance of the two parties in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reports further suggest that the alliance between the two parties moved forward after the Congress agreed to give up their demand for the Moradabad seat and instead asked for Sitapur, Shravasti, and also Varanasi, where the SP had already announced its candidate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, the Congress has requested SP to withdraw their candidate for the Varanasi seat, which is the constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress party had initially submitted a list of 28 seats it wanted to contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress UP in-charge Avinash Pande and party&#8217;s state unit president Ajay Rai will hold a joint press conference in Lucknow today evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":502524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Akhilesh Yadav says all is well that ends well on alliance with Congress in UP","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[143,162069,110],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/21160032\/akhilesh-yadav-rahul-gandhi-650_650x400_61493805434.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502517"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=502517"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=502517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->