UP Assembly Polls: NCP Made Alliance With SP

Mr. Pawar said 13 members of the Legislative Assembly will join SP

New Delhi: Ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Election Polls, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar said his party would contest the state elections in Uttar Pradesh as part of the Samajwadi Party-led alliance.

He also said 13 members of the Legislative Assembly in Uttar Pradesh will be joining the Samajwadi Party.

Talking to reporters, Mr. Pawar said the people of Uttar Pradesh are looking for parivartan (change) in the northern state, adding it will happen.

In a big jolt to the BJP and Yogi Adityanath just before the Uttar Pradesh election, senior leader Swami Prasad Maurya Tuesday quit as a minister and joined the rival Samajwadi Party of Akhilesh Yadav. Moments after he posted his resignation letter on Twitter, another MLA, Roshan Lal Verma, announced his resignation.

A bed-ridden Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA - among five lawmakers who quit the ruling party ahead of elections next month and has stated after his daughter alleged he had been 'kidnapped' by his brother and 'forced' to join the Samajwadi Party.

Vinay Shakya is the BJP MLA from Bidhuna in UP's Auraiya district. He and his brother, Devesh Shakya, are close to heavyweight OBC leader and minister Swami Prasad Maurya, whose jump to the opposition on Tuesday, with that of four legislators who quit the party, made headlines.

According to the BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party) leader said that Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will not contest the upcoming assembly election in the state.

"Former Chief Minister Mayawati and I will not contest the Assembly elections," BSP MP Satish Chandra Misra said.