Akhilesh says the Owaisi-Chandrashekhar alliance will cost the BJP 2–3% of its votes; politics heats up.

Akhilesh says the Owaisi-Chandrashekhar alliance will cost the BJP 2–3% of its votes; politics heats up.

Ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Owaisi’s AIMIM and Chandrashekhar Azad’s Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) have formed the ‘Samajik Parivartan Morcha’ (Social Change Front). Welcoming the alliance, Akhilesh Yadav claimed that it would cause the BJP an additional loss of 2–3% of its votes. Meanwhile, the BJP hit back at Akhilesh’s statement and offered its own take on the alliance.