No 'positive response' from Congress on alliance: SP

January 20, 2017 14:44

A day after ruling out tie-up with the Rashtriya Lok Dal, the Samajwadi Party on Friday said that it has not got any "positive response" from Congress on alliance and that it could give the party only 85 of 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh.

The Samajwadi Party, which is not on the same page with Congress on the issue of inclusion of RLD, said if that party wanted to defeat BJP, it should accept SP's formula of seat-sharing.

"Under this formula, the SP would give those seats to the Congress on which its candidate were in first place or seats where SP was at third, fourth or fifth spots," SP National Vice President Kironmay Nanda told reporters in Lucknow after the SP released its list of 191 candidates.

"Thus, the Congress will get 54 seats. But if it (Congress) talks seriously, we can also give them 25-30 additional seats. The maximum seats we can give to them will be 85," he said.

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