New Delhi, September 26: Samajwadi Party is contesting 33 seats in Haryana assembly elections while its alliance partner Bahujan Sangharsh Party-Kanshi Ram (BSP-KR) would be putting up candidates on 13 seats. “We feel that with none of the parties having any pre-poll alliance, SP has nothing to lose from the situation and we only stand to gain in a post-poll scenario,” SP Haryana unit in charge Sahib Singh told PTI here today.
He claimed that Congress looked a firm favourite to win the elections in Haryana till a couple of weeks ago but delay on its part in announcing its candidates and rebellion within its party ranks could harm its prospects. “The situation for Congress has changed in the last 15 days as it took a long time in announcing its candidates.
In fact yesterday was the last day of filing nominations and till two days back it had not even announced all its candidates. Also lot of rebel candidates could cut its votes, which will only benefit us,” Singh claimed.
There are 90 seats in Haryana assembly, out of which the SP-BSP(KR) combine is contesting 46 seats. The state goes to polls on October 13.
“We have fielded candidates only from those seats where we see some chance for SP,” Singh said.
—-PTI–