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The game of check-mate has started on the political chessboard of the state regarding the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2027. In the present times, while Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress are busy in coordination of seats and meetings for the upcoming elections under ‘India Alliance’, at the same time in the corridors of politics, some pages of the past are also being turned which tell the story of the complex relationship between the two parties. Today, when there are mutual tussles in alliance meetings and internal discussions regarding the candidature for the post of Prime Minister, political pundits remember a historical incident about 27 years ago, when SP founder late Mulayam Singh Yadav had shattered the then Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s dream of taking charge of the country in one stroke.
Those political events of the year 1999 when the country’s politics was shaken This very interesting political story started in the year 1999, when the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government at the Center fell by just one vote. After the fall of the government, a huge void was suddenly created in the country’s politics and efforts to form an alternative government began rapidly. At that time, Congress Party emerged as the largest opposition party and there was full expectation that Congress would form the government at the Center with the help of other opposition parties. In this connection, Congress President Sonia Gandhi went to Rashtrapati Bhavan and met the then President KR Narayanan and made a claim which will be recorded forever in Indian political history.
‘I have the support of 272 MPs’ and that big claim of Sonia Gandhi When Sonia Gandhi came out of Rashtrapati Bhavan after meeting the President, she smiled in front of the media and said with great confidence, "I have the support of 272 MPs and we are going to form the government." After this statement, it was assumed throughout the country that Sonia Gandhi was going to become the next Prime Minister of India. There was an atmosphere of celebration in the Congress camp and discussion had also started on the names of ministers. But what is seen in politics is not always true. The real key to the ‘support’ that was expected behind this big claim of Sonia Gandhi was in the hands of the powerful leader of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh Yadav.
That one ‘refusal’ of Mulayam Singh Yadav and all the dreams of Congress were shattered Soon after Sonia Gandhi’s claim, when the turn came for written support letters to form the government, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav played a political move which slipped the ground from under the feet of Congress. Mulayam Singh Yadav clearly refused to support the government led by Sonia Gandhi. Behind his unexpected decision was the issue of foreign origin and the Samajwadi Party’s own political equations. Due to this strict stance of Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sonia Gandhi completely failed to collect the required magic figure (272). The result was that an alternative government could not be formed and the country again had to face premature Lok Sabha elections, in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee again returned to power with an absolute majority.
What is the message for India alliance from this big lesson of the past? Today, after almost 27 years, when SP and Congress are once again standing together in Uttar Pradesh for the 2027 assembly elections, this page of history gives a big lesson to both the parties. Political experts believe that despite this bitterness of the past and historical tension, in today’s changed political scenario, both the parties are on one platform due to their compulsion and need. But the internal fight for leadership and supremacy is still as old. Now it remains to be seen how much these stories of the past affect the present and future of the alliance in the political riot of 2027.