As the Congress pitches for a three-digit share in the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls and groundwork for seat-sharing talks with the Samajwadi Party (SP) gains pace, a poster has added a new twist to the emerging alliance negotiations.
He also spoke about preparing a list of constituencies the party wants to contest in the 2027 elections. The SP’s national spokesperson Fakhrul Hasan Chand wrote in a post on X: “Now SP will also put up posters regarding demand of seats by the NDA allies so that people come to know which party in the NDA is asking for how many seats. “The alliance has given the BJP a stomach ache. They are so terrified that they are putting up fake posters,” he wrote. Congress’s UP in-charge Rajendra Pal Gautam also accused the BJP of being behind the campaign. Gautam recently emphasised the Congress’s demand for a respectable and equitable share of seats in the alliance. This partnership is not for the sake of power, but a commitment to our shared struggle for the Constitution and democracy. In Rae Bareli, two hoardings were spotted in Ratapur area along the Lucknow-Rae Bareli road. District Congress president Pankaj Tiwari also alleged that the BJP was behind them. Chand also tagged the BJP and its alliance partners in his post.
The posters carrying photographs of Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, UP Congress chief Aradhana Mishra, state in-charge Rajendra Pal Gautam and working president Imran Masood with “200 seat haq hai hamara, UP ko hai Rahul Gandhi par bharosa” (200 seats are our right; UP trusts Rahul Gandhi) written on them were seen in Lucknow, including one in Gomti Nagar, and Rae Bareli on Sunday, triggering allegations and counterattacks between the BJP and INDIA bloc leaders. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav blamed the BJP for the posters, alleging in a social media post that the alliance had given the ruling party a “stomach ache”. “This is nothing but mischief by the BJP, which has not only put up these hoardings but is also propagating them,” he alleged. Uttar Pradesh Congress president Aradhana Mishra said, “Those who engage in such childish antics—hiding behind posters—are clearly fearful of the strength of the INDIA alliance. UP Congress media cell vice president Priyanka Gupta said the posters appear to be AI generated.
