Ayodhya. Congress state president Ajay Rai has claimed five seats in the by-elections to be held on 10 assembly seats. He said that the final decision in this regard will be taken by the national leadership of the Congress and the Samajwadi Party. Just like the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress and SP alliance will fight the by-elections for the assembly seats together and everyone will win.
While going from Sultanpur to Basti, Congress state president Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia was talking to reporters near Avadh University. He said that the All India Alliance will win all the 10 seats in the by-elections. On the claim being made by the BJP in this regard, he said that just as they were claiming to win 80 out of 80 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, in the same way their claim of winning 10 out of 10 seats in the by-elections will be blown away.
While the State President was going from Sultanpur to Basti, Congress workers under the leadership of District President Akhilesh Yadav welcomed him near Avadh University. Addressing the workers during this, Rai said that they should put in all their effort to ensure victory of the alliance candidate in the by-election. While encouraging the workers, he said that the alliance will win all 10 seats in the by-election and the BJP will lose badly. The State President called upon the Congress workers to go among the poor, the suffering and the needy and listen to their problems and fight with the government and administration for their resolution and get them their rights.
District spokesperson Sunil Krishna Gautam said that those who welcomed the state president included Metropolitan President Ved Singh Kamal, Ankur Khatri, State Congress Committee members Rajendra Pratap Singh and Ugrasen Mishra, former District President Ramdas Verma, Rajkumar Pandey, Bhim Shukla, Anil Tiwari, Anil Singh, Abdul Hakim, Balbir Singh Kori, Tariq Rudaulvi, Siraj Mustafa, Rohit Yadav, Mohammad Arif, Basant Mishra, Dinesh Chaudhary and Dr. Ravikant Srivastava, among others.
