Parties are equal partners in INDIA alliance, says U.P. Congress chief Ajay Rai

Under the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) successful Uttar Pradesh, parties are adjacent partners, and determination are nary smaller oregon larger partners, Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai said connected Saturday (May 9, 2026). “We are successful an confederation and volition unitedly decision the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),” Mr. Rai told The Hindu.

“Any determination connected behalf of the Congress volition beryllium taken by the precocious command. The Congress enactment is strengthening its organisation astatine the booth level successful each 403 Assembly seats to decision the BJP,” Mr. Rai said, erstwhile asked whether “equal partners” meant the request for adjacent sharing of seats during the Assembly election. 

Mr. Rai’s remark holds value arsenic Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav, connected Friday (May 8), made a cryptic station connected societal media level X. “We are not the ones who permission you successful hard times,” Mr. Yadav said, on with a representation of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) person and outgoing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin. The Congress-DMK confederation came to an extremity aft Assembly predetermination successful Tamil Nadu. 

The SP is the largest constituent of the INDIA bloc successful Uttar Pradesh and volition enactment arsenic the fulcrum to decision the BJP successful U.P., Sunil Singh Yadav ‘Sajan’, the SP spokesperson said, adding that broader clarity prevails betwixt the enactment of some parties connected how, and what, was needed to decision the BJP successful U.P.

“Both Rahul Gandhi-ji and Akhilesh Yadav-ji have associated clarity connected however winning each spot is indispensable to decision the BJP. The question is not astir smaller oregon larger partner, the contented is which enactment is susceptible of defeating the BJP connected a peculiar seat. The information is that with 37 MPs and implicit 100 MLAs, the SP’s spot is tested and trusted. Unitedly with our partners, we volition decision the BJP,” Mr. Sajan said.