This story is from January 22, 2019

UP: Shivpal Yadav’s party to initiate alliance talk with Congress

UP: Shivpal Yadav’s party to initiate alliance talk with Congress
AGRA: With SP-BSP alliance in place, the erstwhile Samajwadi strong man, Shivpal Yadav, who recently launched his own party Pragatisheel Samajwadi party- Lohia (PSPL), is all set to talk about a possible tie up with the Congress.
This was disclosed by Shivpal Yadav who said that he had appointed Mohammad Adeeb, a former Rajya Sabha Member, to initiate talks for alliance with Congress and other secular parties.
Incidentally, Adeeb and over a dozen other Muslim leaders joined Shivpal’s party on Tuesday only.
Talking to TOI, Adeeb said that he is going to meet Congress chief, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday and would urge him to fight as a major party in their proposed alliance. We are small party but we have ground level workers across the state.
He said, at present, the situation of minorities in the state is at its worse despite the fact that they constitute 18 percent of the population. He said he and other leaders from the community had joined Shivpal in order to consolidate the Muslim vote.
“Muslims are being isolated, we have been neglected as if we are untouchables. Several lynching cases have been reported from various part of the country, but no political party is supporting us,” said Adeeb, adding that Shivpal had promised to support them.
He said that Muslims should consolidate their votes to ensure the defeat BJP. He said all small parties should have join hands and he is already in talk with other parties including OP Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bahujan Samaj Party.

Adeeb attacked both Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati for the SP-BSP alliance. He called Mayawati untrustworthy and claimed that she will join the hands with the BJP once she secures 30 plus seats in the state.
He said that he will invite all old boys of AMU and intellectual Muslims in the first week of February to chalk out a strategy for the consolidation of the community’s vote.
Party’s chief spokesperson, CP Rai said that BSP is a puppet of the BJP and everyone knows their history. He said, PSPL is the only party, which is actually fighting against the BJP.
Others who joined Shivpal’s party along with Adeeb include General Secretary of All India Sunni Ulema Council Haji Mohammad Salim Saheb, former member of Haj Committee Of India Said Maksood Ashraf, lawyer Ashgar Khan Sahib, former president fo AMU Students’ Union Faizul Hassan, National president of Rashtravadi Samaj Party, Chaudhary Jiaul Islam, Social worker, Javed Umar Farooqi, Nafis Akhtar Khan, Shahnshah, Haji Akhtar Kamal, Ishtiyak Ahmed Nijami, Mufran Ahmad Chand, Imran Ahmed, Abdul Razak Mansoori, Syed Hamman Ashraf, Indramani alias Pappu Yadav.
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