Congress is afraid of going alone in UP

With both prime-ministerial candidates of Congress contesting from Uttar Pradesh, the party is in a position to swallow the humiliation temporarily in given 15 seats to ensure victories for Rahul and Sonia Gandhi. Though their seats are pocket burroughs in the past, the tilting of the Dalit votebank towards Mayawati has panicked them a lot. Samajwadi Party on the otherhand, might not benefit a lot from the alliance