Ready to sacrifice our own seats to continue alliance with BSP: Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said that he was ready to sacrifice his party's seatsto continue alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party.

He said their motive was to win elections against BJP and defeat them.

Yadav said,"Our alliance with BSP will continue, in 2019 even if we have to give up a few seats we will do it. We have to ensure BJP is defeated."

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Yadav's remake has come after BSP chief Mayawati said in a national executive meet last month that she would come in alliance with other parties only after her party gets" a respectable number of seats", a media reported.

While Uttar Pradesh minister Swami Prasad Maurya said that the alliance between "Bua and Babua" (Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav) will finish off before the 2019 elections.

He said that because the coalition between Mayawati and Akhilesh was an issue-less alliance, the two will finish off with fighting among themselves.

Maurya said, "Bua and Babua (Mayawati & Akhilesh Yadav) will finish off with fighting among themselves. This isn't an alliance based on issues. An issue-less alliance never works. They will finish off before the election (2019) comes".

Akhilesh Yadav was on his visit to Manipur to unveil the statue of a former pradhan in Jauri village.

The BSP-SP alliance recently rooted out BJP from Gorakhpur, Kairana, Noorpur and Phulpur seats in thebypolls.