Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress, the Samajwadi Party has put forth a challenging condition if the party wants their support in Uttar Pradesh.
Samajwadi has said that it is only willing to let Congress contest on 15 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress had won 52 seats across India — very few of them in in the northeast or the Hindi belt. In Uttar Pradesh, it won only one seat, Raebareli, as Rahul Gandhi lost to Smriti Irani in Amethi.
