Lok Sabha elections: Two-pronged plan to take on the BJP
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: Opposition parties at national level are adopting a new strategy to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. Meanwhile, in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party headed by former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is anti BJP and pro Congress and the Bahujana Samaj Party, headed by former Chief Minister Mayawati, is anti BJP and anti Congress. Akhilesh Yadav may support anti BJP and anti Congress forces to form the government at the centre. In an interview to a news agency, Sharad Yadav said, “The effort is for total unity, but if that is not possible, then there will be possible unity.” Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, defending his party’s alliance with the BSP and to keep the Congress out of the alliance, said, “The SP and BSP in Uttar Pradesh have taken a decision to correct the poll arithmetic in the state with the aim of defeating the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.”