Two months before the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly election, the Congress opened talks on an alliance with the ruling Samajwadi Party, and set its price high. What the Congress wanted In December 2016, reports citing senior Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee leaders said the party would not settle for fewer than 100 to 125 of the state’s 403 seats, and wanted its traditional strongholds among them. Its leaders had been in touch with Shivpal Singh Yadav, then the Samajwadi Party’s state chief. The talks came while the Samajwadi Party itself wasRead More