Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav has said that the members of the INDIA bloc will not be disappointed and will be given proper honour and respect.
This comes a day after he had announced that SP would contest 65 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Yadav, who was in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur to attend a private function on Thursday evening, also said it is now clear that there will be an alliance only in the parliamentary elections, not in state assembly polls.
“In all the alliances which the Samajwadi Party has entered into so far, it has given full respect to its members. Today, I am saying this in front of you that none of the alliance members were disappointed with SP earlier and nor will they be disappointed in the future,” the SP chief told reporters.
“The numbers (65) were given as the people who had come to the meeting had given suggestions that the SP should contest on so many seats or lay its claim on these seats. But I am saying this to you that in all the alliances so far, the effort had been to see to it that none of the partners are disappointed,” the SP chief said.