<b>Letters</b>: Patch-up best way out

Cong hopes to sail through the turbulent political waters in UP by riding on the shoulders of the CM

With reference to Amit Agnihotri’s report, “Congress hints at SP alliance as Akhilesh-Mulayam feud continues” (January 5), going by the statement of Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Congress in-charge of affairs in Lucknow, the party seems keen to forge a pre-poll alliance with the Akhilesh Yadav faction of the fractured Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. Perhaps, the Congress hopes to sail through the turbulent political waters in the state by riding on the shoulders of the chief minister. 
 

But Azad parroted the same old story when he said that “there was also a need for secular forces to come together to