00:00Ally trouble for Congress after MLC poll debacle.
00:03Samajwadi Party demands more seats in Uttar Pradesh ahead of assembly elections
00:07after big wins in Varanasi and Lucknow MLC polls.
00:11Samajwadi Party says Congress should be generous in seat share.
00:15Samajwadi Party has also mocked Congress needs to grasp this reality.
00:19So after BJP, even the Samajwadi Party, which is an ally of the Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh,
00:24is now mocking Congress Party over the results in the MLC polls,
00:28saying that the Congress should be generous because, remember,
00:31just days ago we've seen how the Congress Party has been seeking up to 175 seats in Uttar Pradesh
00:37and now the Samajwadi Party has hit back.
00:40Remember, the Samajwadi Party has won five seats out of the 11 seats in the MLC elections.
00:46The six remaining seats have been won by the BJP.
00:49If we talk about the Congress Party, Congress has won zero in Uttar Pradesh
00:52and now the Samajwadi Party is mocking, saying that Congress should be generous in seat share
00:57and that the Congress needs to grasp this reality.
01:39My colleague Samaj Shrivastav is now joining us on this story.
01:42Samath, after the BJP now, even ally Samajwadi Party is mocking the Congress Party over its performance in the MLC
01:48polls
01:48and is saying once again that,
01:50and is asking the Congress Party to be generous.
01:54Do you think that these results will now impact the bargaining of the Congress as far as the seat sharing
02:01is concerned?
02:05See Anjali, one thing is very clear that Samajwadi Party has given a dominating performance in this MLC elections
02:12and especially as the main opposition party.
02:15And that's why it has become very very crucial that now the bargaining power is with the Samajwadi Party
02:22and not with the Congress Party.
02:24We have seen that how Congress Party leaders have kept on giving statements regarding 180 seats, 150 seats, 200 seats.
02:31Now it's going to be worth seeing how the numbers have gone out in this MLC elections,
02:35especially if you talk about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ex-post yesterday
02:40or you talk about the numbers of UP
02:42because SP was at 3 in the previous elections in 2020
02:46and now they have gone up to 5.
02:48That means they have earned 2 more seats
02:50and here they have won Prayag Raj, they have won Mathura, they have won Varanasi.
02:56So now Samajwadi Party is saying that we have won Ayodhya in Lok Sabha
03:01and have beaten BJP in its own zone, what we call the stronghold.
03:06So Samajwadi Party has clearly hit out at the stronghold of the BJP
03:09and now at that point of time, the seat sharing concept becomes very interesting.
03:14Like how Congress Party will be sitting on the table
03:17and will try to be the big brother when it comes to the seat sharing
03:20because Samajwadi Party has all the rights now to claim more seats
03:25and that's what the Samajwadi Party leaders are saying.
03:28Though they are saying that it's not about the seat, it's about the win.
03:32That's what Akhleesh Shadar is seeing, giving messages to his party workers
03:36to write over there.
03:38So it's going to be worth seeing how seat sharing further goes on.
03:40Back to you.
03:41Absolutely, Samaj. Thank you so much for those details.
03:44So the Samajwadi Party is now asking the Congress to be generous.
03:47Remember, the Congress Party has been seeking up to 200 seats
03:50from the Samajwadi Party in the upcoming Assembly elections
03:53with the Congress Party now winning zero seats in MLC polls
03:56and the Samajwadi Party not just winning five seats
03:59but also defeating BJP in its stronghold like Varanasi and Lucknow.
04:04Now it is saying that we have the upper hand and we need more seats.
04:09So it remains to be seen what happens in the seat sharing talks
04:11between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party.
