New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party on Saturday set a target of winning at least 50 of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2024 elections and ensure that the BJP is defeated in the northern state.
The SP began its two-day national executive meeting in Kolkata on Saturday, during which it discussed the party’s policies for the assembly elections in three Hindi heartland states – Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan – later this year and the Lok Sabha polls. And started discussing strategies. assembly elections next year
Senior SP leader Shivpal Singh Yadav told reporters, “Today, on the day of our first meeting, we discussed organizational issues. In 2024, we plan to win at least 50 seats from Uttar Pradesh.”
Later speaking to PTI, SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav said the party would do everything to stop the BJP’s march in Uttar Pradesh.
“Uttar Pradesh is the only state that can stop the BJP as it has the maximum number of seats. The whole country is looking towards the Samajwadi Party. We will defeat the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP has lied a lot.” Be it diesel, petrol or LPG prices or price hike,” he said, adding that it seems the saffron party is working for big corporate houses.
After a gap of 11 years, the national executive of the party is being held in Kolkata. Samajwadi Party founder late Mulayam Singh Yadav had come to the city to preside over the previous meeting in the eastern metropolis.
Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Trinamool Congress and the Samajwadi Party on Friday agreed to fight a united fight against the BJP and sought the Congress’s ouster from any such formation, saying the grand old party would be pushed out. Your “elder” needs to leave. Boss attitude”.
Senior SP leader Kiranmoy Nanda told PTI after meeting TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, “It has been decided that the Trinamool Congress and the SP will unite to fight the BJP.” Both the parties will also keep distance from the Congress.
Yadav said on Friday that his party would maintain equal distance from both the BJP and the Congress.
The SP and the Congress had joined hands in the 2017 assembly elections in UP, but lost to the BJP. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the grand old party was kept out of the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh.
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