Congress party’s ally the Samajwadi Party has now openly rebelled against the Congress Party. This stand of the Samajwadi Party stems from the support the SP extended to the e ruling Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi for the Delhi Assembly elections. Samajwadi Party had also shown doors to the Congress Party by not offering even a single seat to the Congress Party in the recent Assembly by-elections of 9 seats in its home turf of Uttar Pradesh. At that time the Congress party had tried to cover it up by calling it a small incident.
Samajwadi Party’s disillusionment with the Congress Party has happened due to many incidents. Samajwadi Party had demanded some seats from the Congress Party in Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections but the Congress party rejected its demands using untoreable language. Secondly the Samajwadi Party also wanted to contest elections on some seats in Haryana but the Congress party adopted such a policy of ‘Ekala Chalo’ that both SP and AAP were sidelined by the Congress party. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s larger plan is to get SP recognized as a national party. The real problem of the Samajwadi Party started when the Congress party won six seats in 2024 Lok Sabha elections due to its alliance with the SP and started working on a plan to break into the SP’s vote bank.
But in the Delhi Assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party has openly come out in favor of the Aam Aadmi Party even going against the Congress Party and this is creating an atmosphere against the Congress Party not only in Delhi but also in the politics of Uttar Pradesh and many other states.
There are three important parties in politics in Delhi. These parties are the Aam Aadmi Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress party. However, the Congress party has now become only a marginal player in Delhi politics. Congress Party held power in Delhi for 15 years under the leadership of Sheila Dixit without any hindrance but after that the Congress party was completely devastated in Delhi politics.
Congress Party has failed to open its account in the last two Assembly and three Lok Sabha elections in NCT of Delhi. This time the Congress party needed the support of the INDI Alliance parties so that it could try to regain some of its lost ground in Delhi politics. It’s not only the Samajwadi Party but many other allies of the Congress party who are now seen distancing themselves from the Congress party. Many trusted allies of the Congress party, including Lalu Yadav’s party the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar, the National Conference in Jammu and Kashmir, are seen snubbing the Congress party.
These parties are not sidelining the Congress party not only in the electoral field but also inside the Parliament. These parties now do not see any future in alliance with the Congress party.
The Samajwadi Party has had bitter experiences of electoral alliance with the Congress except for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. In the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, there was an alliance between the Congress party and the Samajwadi Party but the tally of the Congress Party decreased from 28 to 7 and the seats of the Samajwadi Party decreased from 224 to 47.
Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav never had sympathetic views for the Congress party. He always had a political disenchantment from the Congress party. Mulayam Singh Yadav had once even described the Congress Party as his political enemy number one in the Lok Sabha. Not only this, but in his last address in the 2019 Lok Sabha, Mulayam Singh Yadav had given his full blessings to Narendra Modi with the wish that he would become the Prime Minister again.
