TIL Desk/National/Lucknow/ A day after holding marathon talks with Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Congress poll strategist Prashant Kishor today held closed-door meeting with Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav fuelling speculation that a grand alliance could be on the anvil for the 2017 Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. Today’s meeting assumes significance as the 43-year-old chief minister is expected to have a major say in ticket distribution and choice of seats to be contested by his party in case an alliance is cobbled together.
There has been speculation of a “maha-gathbandhan” among erstwhile Janata Parivar parties and Congress to check BJP in its tracks Kishor met Akhilesh and was with him for nearly three hours during which they are understood to have discussed threadbare the state’s political scenario ahead of the upcoming elections.
“Elections are near, who will be benefited, who will lose (in alliance) is to be taken note of. The decision is to be taken by party’s national president,” Akhilesh told reporters while refusing to publicly state his stand on the issue. “I will give my suggestions only at party platform,” he said.
When asked specifically about the possibility of SP joining the hands with Congress, Akhilesh parried a direct reply, saying “If SP and Congress want alliance, will you (media) stop it?” He did not elaborate on the query made against the backdrop of Kishor’s two rounds of meeting with Mulayam here yesterday, triggering speculation of a ‘maha-gathbandhan’ (grand alliance) similar to the one in Bihar.
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