SP’s Bet on ‘Bruised Hand’? Of 17 UP Lok Sabha Seats It Will Contest, Congress Lost Deposits for 12 in 2019

The allies announced the seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in Lucknow on Wednesday, saying the SP will contest 62 seats, the Congress 17, and Chandrashekhar Azad’s party on one. But the Congress did not even fight on one of these seats, Bansgaon, in 2019. Out of the 67 seats that it contested in UP last time, it lost its deposits in 63