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Congress to go it alone in 80 UP Lok Sabha seats: Ghulam Nabi Azad

Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh says party hopeful of doubling the tally of 21 seats it secured in the 2009 general elections

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Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad addresses a press meet as UP Congress Chief Raj Babbar looks on, in Lucknow. Pic/PTI

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad addresses a press meet as UP Congress Chief Raj Babbar looks on, in Lucknow. Pic/PTI

Left out of the SP-BSP pre-poll tie-up in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Sunday announced that it would go it alone on all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the upcoming general election.

After a brainstorming session with senior party leaders, Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad, however, said his party would accommodate any secular force that was capable of taking on the ruling BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.

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