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The political chessboard for Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2027 has already started being laid. Various speculations are being made in the political circles from Delhi to Lucknow regarding the future of the India alliance. Recently, the mysterious silence of Congress MP and Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi regarding the allegations of theft of donations to Ram Temple has surprised political strategists. After this silence, political analysts of Uttar Pradesh have now started raising the question whether the Congress Party is going to repeat the developments in Bihar in UP also? Can Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav also have to contest elections alone at the last moment like Tejashwi Yadav?
Rahul Gandhi’s new stand and Congress’s strategy on issues related to Ram Temple.
While the Samajwadi Party is continuously adopting an aggressive stance on the controversies related to the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya and the alleged donations, Rahul Gandhi and the top leadership of the Congress have completely maintained distance on this issue. Experts believe that Congress is now avoiding getting involved in any direct controversy that hurts the religious sentiments of the majority society. Keeping in mind the 2027 UP Assembly elections, Congress is trying to enhance its ‘soft Hindutva’ and pro-social image, due to which an ideological distance is clearly visible between the core agenda of the Samajwadi Party and the national strategy of the Congress.
Will Congress repeat Bihar’s ‘Tejashwi Yadav pattern’ in Uttar Pradesh also?
There is a strong discussion in the political circles that after becoming strong by riding on the shoulders of the regional parties, the Congress Party leaves them to fend for themselves. Just as there was a change in the equations of seat coordination and alliance with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Tejashwi Yadav in Bihar, the same murmur is now being felt in Uttar Pradesh also. Local leaders of Uttar Pradesh Congress are no longer in a mood to bow down to SP and are strengthening their claim on all the important seats in the state. In such a situation, this aggressive attitude of Congress has become a cause of concern for Akhilesh Yadav’s think tank.
The alliance of SP and Congress may get stuck in seat sharing.
If we look at the geographical and social layout of Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party has a strong cadre from Purvanchal to Western UP. But in the last few elections, Congress has also worked hard on the ground to regain its lost support base. Sources say that in the upcoming elections, Congress may insist on demanding more seats than respectable. If there is no agreement on seat sharing formula between the two parties, then the alliance may break. Akhilesh Yadav is well aware of this, hence he is also internally preparing a strategy to fight alone on all the seats.