After a stellar victory in the Ghosi byelection in Uttar Pradesh, fault lines within the newly formed Opposition bloc, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), came to fore as the Uttar Pradesh Congress on Thursday said that the Samajwadi Party (SP) leadership must help with defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in neighbouring states as well.
“We supported the SP wholeheartedly in Ghosi, and our rank and file campaigned extensively for the joint Opposition candidate, resulting in the victory of INDIA alliance by a big margin. But in the neighbouring Uttarakhand’s Bageshwar assembly byelection, the SP contested, despite having no base in the region. In a fight against the BJP, the SP must show a big heart like the Congress party, which is ready for any sacrifice to unseat the BJP in 2024,” told Anil Yadav, organisational secretary, U.P. Congress, told The Hindu.
Along with the Ghosi assembly byelection, the neighbouring Uttarakhand, which was carved out of U.P. in 2000, also witnessed a byelection in the Bageshwar Vidhan Sabha seat where the BJP’s candidate Parwati Das defeated the grand-old-party’s Basant Kumar by 2,405 votes.
