Lucknow: Amid speculations of a possible re-thinking over the continuance of alliance between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress in Uttar Pradesh in the next assembly polls in the state due in 2027, fissures appeared in the alliance after two senior leaders of the rival parties traded barbs over I.N.D.I.A alliance leadership.

Former UP minister and senior SP leader Ravidas Mehrotra and a few others said that SP president Akhilesh Yadav should lead the I.N.D.I.A. alliance in place of Congress.

Congress Lok Sabha member and senior party leader Imran Masood, however, quickly countered the remark saying that Rahul Gandhi was the undisputed leader of the grand opposition alliance.

‘’Let Akhilesh Yadav handle UP first….there is no alternative to Rahul Gandhi in the alliance,’’ Masood s

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