The Samajwadi Party’s alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal forged ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is all set to fall apart.
The cracks between the two parties had appeared soon after the 2022 UP assembly elections and the landslide victory of the Congress in Karnataka assembly polls has
Both parties officially maintain there is no divide, but an RLD leader claims Jayant Chaudhary and Congress top brass have held talks. Another says, “SP national president has been bullying us. He didn’t give us a single mayoral seat in west UP.”
While both allies downplay differences and say their coalition will continue, the Meerut Mayor election remains a serious bone of contention between them
Naming Om Prakash Rajbhar, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) Chief Jayant Choudhury and SP leader Swami Prasad Maruya, the Mahan Dal leader said that all the aforementioned parties have been dancing to the tunes of the ruling BJP