Lucknow, Feb. 26 -- After Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal and MK Stalin in Tamil Nadu, the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party is the third major regional force that has sought the services of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), a political consultancy, in its electoral fight against the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. I-PAC, founded by Prashant Kishor who has now stepped away from the organisation and taken an unsuccessful political plunge with his Jan Suraaj Party in Bihar, will help not only with booth-level surveys but also with formulating strategy and selecting the right ground issues, party insiders said. People familiar with the matter indicate the SP is ready to spend a huge amount of money on the entire exercise. The SP has already enlisted IPAC to conduct a booth-level survey ahead of the elections to strategise for 2027 at a micro-level. P3...