NCP To Contest UP Assembly Polls In Alliance With Samajwadi Party: Sharad Pawar

Mumbai: Sharad Pawar on Tuesday announced that Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will be contesting the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in alliance with Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party. Also Read: NCP In Talks With Cong, TMC For Alliance In Goa Polls: Sharad Pawar

Addressing a press conference, Pawar claimed that 13 BJP MLAs in Uttar Pradesh will quit the saffron party and join SP.

Taking aim at the BJP, Pawar said communal polarisation is being done in Uttar Pradesh ahead of UP elections 2022.

“The people of UP will give a befitting reply to this. The people of Uttar Pradesh are looking for a change. We will surely see the change in the State,” the NCP chief said.

Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in 7 phases starting from February 10, while the counting of votes will take place on March 10.

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