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Ending days of suspense, the Congress and Samajwadi Party agreed to fight the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly polls jointly, saying they’d done so to keep communal forces (read the Bharatiya Janata Party) at bay.
The SP, which has run the state government since its 2012 win, will contest 298 of the 403 seats in the assembly. The Congress will do so in the other 105. Akhilesh Yadav, lately having emerged from the shadow of his father and SP founder- patriarch Mulayam Singh, would be the chief ministerial face of the alliance.
The alliance had come under intense pressure in the
