It was a perfectly scripted story that went awry even before it could unfold on the political stage.The much-hyped alliance between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh has been devastated – to put it rather mildly – in .
Putting a brave front over the cross-voting by his party MLAs, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said that the decision to field a third candidate was a strategic move aimed at testing the true allegiance of his party members. Seven Samajwadi Party (SP) MLAs cross-voted for the BJP in the