SP and Congress train guns over wolf attacks; BJP says UP govt to take 'stringent action'

The Samajwadi Party and the Congress are gearing up for bypolls to 10 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, with the INDIA bloc partners targeting the state government over its "undemocratic" working style, "collapse" of law and order and the recent spate of wolf attacks.

The bypolls, the schedule for which is yet to be announced, were necessitated by the election of the incumbent MLAs to the Lok Sabha and the disqualification of one legislator.

Leaders of the two parties, which contested the Lok Sabha elections in an alliance in Uttar Pradesh, have confirmed that they would contest the bypolls "unitedly". Samajwadi Party chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary told news agency, "The govt has failed on this front (stopping wolf attacks).