The anti-Congress and anti-BJP coalition in the State is inching closer to finalise the seat sharing exercise between the partners even as efforts on to rope in more regional players into the fold.
The State president of Samajwadi Party (SP), Gauri Singh Yadav, State secretary of Communist Party of India Marxist (CPM) Badal Saroj, leader of the Rashtriya Samanata Dal, Mahesh Kushwaha and Roop Singh Chauhan of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in the meeting of the coalition partners agreed to fight the forthcoming Assembly election together in the State.
The meeting was held at the office of the SP in which the partners expressed the need for strengthening the coalition further to bring all the non-BJP and Congress parties together.
“We have agreed to contest the Assembly election together in the State” said Yadav. According to him, the details of the discussion would be sent to the party high command in for final stamp of approval. The SP had already announced the names 36 candidates who will be contesting the election where other alliance partners did not have much say. However, the party was willing to accommodate the interest of alliance partners, if required.
“We have unanimously agreed to contest from all the seats to give a political alternative to the voters”, said CPM leader Badal Saroj. The State has 230 Assembly segments.
He said that the coalition partners was in touch with the JDU and also Gonwana Ganatanta Party (GGP) and other small parties to forge a strong anti-BJP and anti-Congress front in the State, as both the parities failed to usher in developments.