{"id":312970,"date":"2019-06-04T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T08:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312970"},"modified":"2019-06-04T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T08:53:35","slug":"after-mayawatis-announcement-to-contest-solo-akhilesh-yadav-says-sp-will-ride-alone-in-assembly-bypolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/after-mayawatis-announcement-to-contest-solo-akhilesh-yadav-says-sp-will-ride-alone-in-assembly-bypolls\/","title":{"rendered":"After Mayawati\u2019s announcement to contest solo, Akhilesh Yadav says SP will ride alone in Assembly bypolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299906 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/22b-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22b-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22b-768x583.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22b-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22b-696x528.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22b-553x420.jpg 553w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22b.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After Mayawati\u2019s announcement that her party would contest solo in the Assembly bypolls. Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav in his first reaction said that his party would also consider contesting on all 11 seats in the bypolls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIf the coalition has broken, I will reflect deeply on it and if the coalition is not there in the by-elections, then Samajwadi Party will prepare for the elections. The SP will also fight on all 11 seats alone,\u201d Akhilesh Yadav said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday morning Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati said that her party BSP will contest bypolls to 11 Uttar Pradesh assembly seats alone. She said the political compulsions had forced her to go solo in the assembly by-elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mayawati told reporters, \u201cWe cannot ignore political compulsions. In the recently concluded Lok Sabha Elections, the Yadav community did not support the SP. The strong contenders of SP were also defeated. We thus need to think about the situation,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mayawati added that she was taking a break from her partnership with the SP, but it is not a permanent break. \u201cIf her party feels in future that SP Chief succeeds in his political work, we will again work together. However, if that does not happen, it will be good for us to work separately,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BSP supremo said her ties with Akhilesh Yadav went beyond politics, however, it would be tough to ignore the political situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAkhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple Yadav have given me a lot of respect and I have also forgotten things in the past and treated them with respect. We won\u2019t make these relations for political gain. It will continue forever,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Mayawati\u2019s announcement that her party would contest solo in the Assembly bypolls. Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav in his first reaction said that his party would also consider contesting on all 11 seats in the bypolls. \u201cIf the coalition has broken, I will reflect deeply on it and if the coalition is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2014,2015],"tags":[1884,947,1005,843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312971,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312970\/revisions\/312971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}