Lok Sabha 2024: Congress-SP seat-sharing talks failed in UP? Here's what INDIA bloc allies say

Is INDIA bloc staring at another big jolt, this time in Uttar Pradesh? The seat-sharing talks between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress reportedly hit a "dead-end" after late night negotiations. However, Congress leader KC Venugopalm said on Tuesday the “seat-sharing will be finalised at any point of time".

On Monday, the SP offered the Congress, asserting that its chief Akhilesh Yadav will join the Congress leader only if the proposal is accepted. Uttar Pradesh has a total of 80 Lok Sabha seats.

"We have given a final offer of 17 Lok Sabha seats to the Congress. Akhilesh Yadav's participation in the Nyay Yatra in Raebareli on Tuesday will depend on their acceptance," SP chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary PTI on Monday. He didn't share details of the seats offered to the Congress.

A day later, on Tuesday, a few reports claimed that the alliance between the Congress and the SP "has fallen through" or "reached a dead end". India Today that the SP's refusal to part with Ballia, Moradabad, and Bijnor proved to be the deal-breaker".

Meanwhile, India TV that no consensus could be reached despite late night talks between leaders of the two parties on Monday over the seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

Times Now also cited sources as , "Congress-SP talks on seat sharing have failed in Uttar Pradesh over three seats." It was being reported that the , but the SP didn't agree to the Congress' demand.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav had earlier said that the . Meanwhile, Ajay Rai, the Congress' Uttar Pradesh unit chief, had said the party should get around two dozen seats (of 80 seats) it had won in the 2009 general elections. The Samajwadi Party and the Congress.

An SP spokesperson said during a debate on that