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‘Akhilesh Yadav to decide on poll alliance, seat sharing’: Ram Gopal Yadav after Samajwadi Party’s national executive meet

Lucknow | ByPress Trust of India
Jul 28, 2018 03:45 PM IST

The Samajwadi Party’s national executive also decided to ask the Election Commission to conduct next year’s general election through ballot papers and not electronic voting machines.

The Samajwadi Party national executive on Saturday authorised party president Akhilesh Yadav to take a decision on alliance and seat sharing for the general elections next year, a party leader said.

The national executive of the Samajwadi Party met in Lucknow on Saturday.(HT Photo)
The national executive of the Samajwadi Party met in Lucknow on Saturday.(HT Photo)

“The main decision taken in the national executive is that party president Akhilesh Yadav has been authorised to take a decision on alliance and seat sharing for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls,” senior SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav said.

“The executive is of the view that elections should be held through ballot papers and not through EVMs,” he told reporters.

Asked to elaborate on the discussions at the national meeting about the political scenario, Yadav parried a direct reply, saying, “I am telling you about the decisions not the discussions.”

About absence of some party leaders, including Mohd Azam Khan from the meeting, he said, “Is it necessary that all should remain present? Ninety per cent of the members were present. Party president Akhilesh Yadav was also there.”

On being asked as to what the party would do if the Election Commission did not accept their demand for polls through ballot papers, Yadav said SP leaders would sit at the doors of the EC and resort to Satyagrah.

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