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UP grand alliance sees little need for Congress help in Lok Sabha elections

Mayawati appealed voters to not waste their votes by supporting the Congress

BSP chief Mayawati and SP President Akhilesh Yadav (left) jointly campaign for SP candidate Azam Khan in Rampur recently. Together the SP, the BSP and the Congress have nominated 18 Muslim candidates as against 41 in 2014 Photo: PTI

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BSP chief Mayawati and SP President Akhilesh Yadav (left) jointly campaign for SP candidate Azam Khan in Rampur. Photo: PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : May 02 2019 | 11:51 PM IST

Over the past two days, the Congress leadership has reached out to Uttar Pradesh (UP)’s grand alliance, but Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party (SP)'s Akhilesh Yadav have rejected the overtures and equated the Congress with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the gathbandhan’s principal rivals in the state.

On Thursday, Mayawati accused the BJP and the Congress of a tacit understanding and unitedly working against the Samajwadi Party (SP)-BSP-Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance in the state.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav also dismissed Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's statement that her party, wherever it was not in the

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