Congress will contest from 17 seats in Uttar Pradesh as finalised and agreed upon by both the Congress and the Samajwadi Party leadership. This means the Samajwadi Party won't give any candidate on these 17 seats and the details of these seats once again trigger speculations of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra making her poll debut from RaeBareli -- after her mother Sonia Gandhi shifted to the Rajya Sabha. RaiBareli is a Congress bastion which the party won't want to lose and ensuring that there is no SP candidate might be the first step for that.
Congress-Samajwadi seat sharing deal: Congress to contest from these 17 seats
Raebareli
Amethi
Fatehpur Sikri
Saharanpur
Prayagraj
Maharajganj
Varanasi
Amroha
Jhansi
Bulandshahr
Ghaziabad
Mathura
Sitapur
Barabanki
Kanpur
Bansgaon
Deoria
RaeBareli, Amethi and Varanasi are three crucial seats that Akhilesh ceded to the Congress. While Varanasi is the Lok Saha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amethi is the one that Rahul Gandhi in 2019 lost to BJP's Smriti Irani. RaeBareli was Sonia Gandhi's seat until she vacated it for health reasons and shifted to the Rajya Sabha.
The Congress has given the Samajwadi Party Madhya Pradesh's Khajuraho seat.
With AAP in Punjab, Delhi and Trinamool in Congress, the INDIA bloc's seat-sharing prospect hit a deadlock. Akhilesh too made an offer of 11 seats first, then made it to 15 and the final offer was 17. On 17, Akhilesh put his foot down and said he would join Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra only after Congress finalised the deal.
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