“If any secular party competent to fight the BJP, willing to go with us, we will accommodate them,” the Congress general secretary said.
Chidambaram said the goal was to defeat the BJP and expressed hope that all secular, liberal parties would come together to fight the elections.
He said the Congress party might give a surprise or two in the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh "about what the party is capable of doing and to mobilise people."
Addressing a gathering in Dubai, the Congress scion said; "Congress party has tremendous to offer to the people of Uttar Pradesh. I have tremendous respect for the leaders of BSP and SP."
Gearing up to corner the Modi government in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi party and Bahujan Samaj Party announced their tie-up in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday while keeping Congress out of the pact.
Out of the 80 seats in the state, BSP and SP will contest on 38 each, two seats will go to smaller allies, while Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, will go uncontested by the alliance.
SP-BSP alliance for Lok Sabha polls: UP CM Yogi Adityanath has termed the alliance between Akhilesh and Mayawati as casteist.
The combination of caste factors between Yadavs, Muslims and Dalits is going to make the alliance a formidable change, though BJP president Amit Shah said on Friday that in politics, chemistry matters more than mathematics.
Addressing a joint press conference with Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati said that the SP-BSP alliance was aimed at defeating BJP and company in 2019 general elections.
His comments came two days after BSP supremo Mayawati and SP leader Akhilesh Yadav moved closer to finalise a seat-sharing formula, ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: The BJP won 71 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 general elections and 312 of the 403 Assembly seats in 2017.
In April this year, SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav backed the decision of his son Akhilesh Yadav of joining hands with the BSP for elections. He had said that such an alliance would prove to be very strong in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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