Hopeful of forming alliance to take on BJP: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said SP is hopeful of forming an alliance of opposition parties to take on the Bharatiya Janata Party in next year's Lok Sabha polls and that the Congress should join regional parties in their bastions to fight the BJP.

I am hopeful that chief ministers like K Chandrasekhar Rao, Mamata Banerjee and Nitish Kumar and the way we are trying, some alliance or front will be formed which will take on the BJP (in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls), Yadav told reporters at the Indore Press Club.

Earlier, the SP chief also paid tribute to Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar on his 132nd birth anniversary at the Dalit icon's memorial in Mhow.

Replying to a question on opposition unity against the BJP, he said the Congress is a national party and it has to decide its own role in this regard.

The Congress has got an opportunity to stand with regional parties in places where the latter are strong to take on the BJP, he said.

He added that since the Congress is a big .