UP Congress chief Raj Babbar today said in order to defeat the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, division of opposition votes must not take place in the state.
On speculation of Congress forming an alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh, Babbar said: "Our party believes that for defeating the BJP, division of votes should not take place. We tried this in Gorakhpur and Phoolpur (bypolls)."
Meanwhile, convenor of the communication department of the Congress Priyanka Chaturvedi accused UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of attempting to stoke a controversy for refusing to wear a cap offered to him at the mausoleum of Saint Kabir Das in Maghar last evening
Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's accusation that the opposition parties had forgotten Kabir, she said, "Sant Kabir is a personality, whom no one can afford to forget or ignore. The moment elections are around the corner, Modiji gets reminded of such things."