The Samajwadi Party (SP) won’t allow seat-sharing negotiations in Uttar Pradesh to become a media spectacle, said party leader Javed Ali Khan, who is part of the INDIA bloc’s 14-member coordination committee.
In an interview to The Hindu, he also junked suggestions that the Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) are pretending to be cosying up to the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as a tactic to get more seats for themselves in the State.
Mr. Khan, who emerged as a surprise party choice for the INDIA panel, said the SP is “neither rigid nor too flexible” on seat-sharing in the State and will come up with details soon. “In U.P., it is easier to negotiate. Bihar is going to be much more complex but someone should also ask the BJP how it will adjust the 38 NDA partners that it paraded in Delhi recently,” he added.
