Cong to ally with regional party

AN ALLIANCE between the Bharatiya Samaj Party (BSP) and Congress for sharing seats in the forthcoming Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh will be finalised within one week, according to general secretary of BSP Rajkumar Gupta.

AN ALLIANCE between the Bharatiya Samaj Party (BSP) and Congress for sharing seats in the forthcoming Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh will be finalised within one week, according to general secretary of BSP Rajkumar Gupta. Talking to mediapersons here in Varanasi on Tuesday, Gupta said the BSP had joined hands with the Congress on certain issues such as inclusion of 16 deprived castes into the list of Scheduled Tribe.

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Formal declaration on BSP-Congress alliance would be made in a public meeting, slated to be held at Lucknow in the month of November. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and BSP president Omprakash Rajbhar would address the Lucknow rally, Gupta said.

“Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are responsible for the plight of eastern Uttar Pradesh”, he said and added that a sense of insecurity, gunda raj and lawlessness had been prevailing in Uttar Pradesh.