Akhilesh Yadav warning signal: Anxious Congress waits and watches

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav with party leaders in Lucknow on Wednesday.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday sent warning signals to the Congress, which is keen to be part of a Bihar-style SP-BSP-RLD grand alliance in Uttar Pradesh, expressing his unhappiness with the party for not making its lone MLA in Madhya Pradesh a minister saying the turn of events has cleared the way for the SP to choose its line. He also said he would travel to Hyderabad to meet Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao who is trying to forge a ‘non-Congress, non-BJP’ front. A rattled Congress did not react to Yadav’s remarks with top leaders saying they would prefer to wait and watch how the situation unfolds. Some suggested it is posturing and linked it to the Congress’s performance in the recent Assembly elections.

The fact, however, remains that SP and BSP have been keeping the Congress guessing, charting a separate course in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh…

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