Lucknow. A few months are left for UP Assembly elections 2027. BJP is in power in UP by winning the assembly elections for the last two times. At the same time, Samajwadi Party and its ally Congress, which won 43 seats in UP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, claim that this time BJP will be removed from power in UP. However, there is a tussle between Samajwadi Party and Congress over seat distribution in the UP Assembly elections. A banner related to this has been put up at many places in Lucknow.
The banner put up in Lucknow has the photos of Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi at the top. At the same time, on the left side are the pictures of Rahul Gandhi and on the right side, there are pictures of UP Congress Working President Imran Masood, President Aradhana Mishra Mona and Congress UP in-charge Rajendra Pal Gautam. It is written in this banner, '200 seats are our right…UP has faith in Rahul Gandhi'. The name of the person who prepared it is not on the banner. It is believed that some Congress leader or supporter has got the banners made and put up in Lucknow.
#WATCH | Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh: A poster of the Congress party with '200 seat haq hai hamara' has been put up in Lucknow.
— ANI (@ANI) October 25, 2026
UP Congress in-charge Rajendra Pal Gautam had said in the statement that his party wants to contest elections on around 200 seats. Earlier in his statement, he had said that Congress wants to contest on at least 150 assembly seats in UP. At the same time, Imran Masood had also given statements demanding more seats. Whereas, Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has said that victory is important, not the number of seats. On this statement of Akhilesh, Imran Masood had said that we will win only if we get seats. At the same time, Samajwadi Party MP SP Singh Patel had clearly said that giving 50 seats to Congress in the UP elections would be too much. It is clear from this that there is a tussle between Samajwadi Party and Congress on seat sharing. In such a situation, the banner put up in Lucknow is clearly indicating the pressure of Congress on Samajwadi Party.