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Congress strategy is to help SP-BSP gathbandhan in UP: Priyanka in Amethi

In Amethi, the BJP's Smriti Irani is contesting against Congress President Rahul Gandhi,

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi visits party worker Anokhe Lal’s residence during an election campaign in Amethi | 	Photo: PTI
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Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi visits party worker Anokhe Lal’s residence during an election campaign in Amethi | Photo: PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday said in Amethi that her party’s strategy in Uttar Pradesh has been to field candidates that either have prospects of winning or would potentially damage the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) chances and benefit the alliance of Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).

Priyanka’s statement comes with polling on 39 of UP’s 80 seats already over, and 41 seats of eastern UP slated to go to the polls in the next three phases on May 6, 12 and 19. In 2014, the BJP had won 73 seats, including