Any SP-BSP tie-up for lok Sabha elections will only be a "limited period" partnership between two "opportunist" individuals to remain politically relevant and not an alliance of two parties, according to Union Minister Anupriya Patel.
Anupriya, leader of Apna Dal, which is an ally of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh, is confident of the NDA repeating its performance of 2014 lok Sabha polls in 2019.
The BJP-led NDA got 73 seats out of 80 in UP in 2014 elections including two of Apna Dal. The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which contested last general elections separately, have given indications that both parties will contest 2019 general elections together to take on the BJP
“Each and every individual of Uttar Pradesh knows that the SP and the BSP, which have always been arch rivals of each other, are coming together to stop Modiji,” Anupriya Patel said. Describing the talks of SP-BSP alliance as “opportunism”, she said people of the state will not accept this tie-up.
Emphasising that the entire politics of these two parties is based "on opposition to each other", she said, ”This will not be an alliance of two parties but a partnership between two individuals to remain politically relevant. "She said unlike the BJP and the Apna Dal, there is no chemistry between these “two opportunists”.