Samajwadi Celebration chief Akhilesh Yadav has joined the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi that’s passing via Agra in Uttar Pradesh. The overture got here days after the seat-sharing deal between the SP and the Congress. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who helped finalise the deal between the 2 events that was on ice for months, can be on the spot.

The bonhomie provides the Opposition bloc INDIA some trigger to cheer. Mr Yadav is likely one of the first key Opposition leaders to affix the large footmarch that’s anticipated to span the nation from west to east earlier than culminating in Mumbai.

Trinamool Congress chief and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had stayed away from the rally when it handed via her state amid a contemporary bout of rancour over seat sharing.

The Congress is making efforts to heal the breach with a contemporary plan that scales down its ambitions in Bengal and presents Trinamool seats in Assam and Meghalaya, the place it has been the principal Opposition occasion.  

Earlier this week, reaching out personally to Akhilesh Yadav, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had accepted the SP’s 17-seat supply in Uttar Pradesh.

In return, the Congress cedes another seat in Madhya Pradesh to SP, making up for the omission of its then state unit chief Kamal Nath that had jeopardised its cope with the occasion and the unity of the INDIA bloc.

In Uttar Pradesh, apart from its strongholds of Raebareli and Amethi — which Rahul Gandhi misplaced to the BJP’s Smriti Irani in 2019 — the Congress may even should spearhead the problem to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his constituency, Varanasi.

The opposite seats the occasion will contest consists of Kanpur Nagar, Fatehpur Sikri, Basgaon, Saharanpur, Prayagraj, Maharajganj, Amroha, Jhansi, Bulandshahar, Ghaziabad, Mathura, Sitapur, Barabanki, and Deoria.