Congress Hits Back at SP MP as INDIA Alliance Rift Widens in UP

• by Akanksha Mishra
• 2026-09-24 13:56:00

A fierce political war of words has broken out between the INDIA alliance partners in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the high-stakes state assembly elections, exposing simmering tensions between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Indian National Congress. The friction erupted following remarks made by Samajwadi Party's Kairana Lok Sabha MP Iqra Hasan, who claimed that the Samajwadi Party would not have faced any electoral setbacks even if it had contested independently without entering into an alliance with the Congress. Hasan's dismissal of the grand old party's electoral contribution provoked immediate outrage within the state Congress leadership, triggering aggressive counter-attacks and raising fresh questions about the stability and cohesion of the opposition bloc in Uttar Pradesh.

'Victory Would Have Been Difficult': Haseeb Khan Accuses SP Aides of Working for BJP

Leading the sharp rebuttal on Wednesday, Haseeb Khan, State Vice President of the Uttar Pradesh Congress Minority Department, issued a direct warning to the Samajwadi Party, asserting that had the Congress entered the electoral fray on its own, even Iqra Hasan's parliamentary victory from Kairana would have been nearly impossible. In a scathing accusation, Khan alleged that a faction of political advisors surrounding Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav is covertly serving the interests of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by misleading the SP chief and sabotaging the opposition alliance from within to fragment anti-incumbency votes.

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Doubling down on his critique, Khan stated that without the vote consolidation provided by the INDIA bloc partnership, the Samajwadi Party could never have secured its expansive tally in the general elections. Citing detailed booth and constituency statistics from the Election Commission of India (ECI), the Congress leader pointed out that the critical margin of victory in several closely contested seats came directly from the Congress party's committed vote base. Khan asserted that dismissing the alliance's collective grassroots strength ignores political ground realities, warning that internal arrogance and public mudslinging from SP leaders will only jeopardize the opposition's combined campaign to challenge the ruling party across Uttar Pradesh.

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