The Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan stated on the alliance of Congress and Samajwadi party after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav hold a press conference ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections.

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As per the source, he said "We are not giving (Congress) a clean chit. We are choosing the lesser evil," 

He further added that "There was an experience in Bihar of a mahagathbandhan. That experiment in Bihar succeeded and there was a view among common people that there could be a coalition of like-minded people and they should come together and contest elections,"

"very agenda of BJP is against the weak, Dalits, backward and minorities", Mr. Khan said.