Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday told reporters that he was yet to get any invitation for the Congress yatra led by Rahul Gandhi, which entered West Bengal, then went to Bihar, and then returned to Bengal.
'The problem is that we don't get invited to many big events... So how do we ask for an invitation ourselves?', Samajwadi party supremo Akhilesh Yadav told reporters on Saturday when while answering questions regarding their participation in the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday told reporters that he was yet to get any invitation for the Congress yatra led by Rahul Gandhi, which entered West Bengal, then went to Bihar, and then returned to Bengal.
Yadav's comments came at a time when the Congress and the Samajwadi Party are holding seat-sharing talks in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha election due in two months.
"The problem is that we don't get invited to many big events... So how do we ask for an invitation ourselves?" Mr Yadav told reporters when asked whether he would join the yatra when it enters UP.
Regarding the invitation to the grand Ram Mandir inauguration ceremony in Ayodhya, the Samajwadi Party chief said, "We asked that (invitation) ourselves... After we informed them that our house was cleaned with Ganga jal (water), then we heard that they have decided to invite us."
The Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra entered Bengal on January 25 morning which was followed by their schedule in Bihar .
This week, the yatra re-entered Bengal in a bid to visit the traditional Congress strongholds of Malda and Murshidabad.