LUCKNOW, June 27 -- Rajendra Pal Gautam, the newly-appointed All-India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge for Uttar Pradesh, on Saturday said his party believed in equal partnership in the alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) as part of INDIA bloc during the 2027 UP assembly polls.

"The alliance is there and a final decision in this regard will be taken by the party high command. Congress will go for it with equality and not compromise. It is clear that when in alliance, the conditions will not only be of the Samajwadi Party alone," said Gautam a day after he was made the UP Congress in-charge.

"Congress should get an equal share in the alliance. Our party has become strong in recent years and we are going to the grassroots level to ...