In a big setback for the Uttar Pradesh Congress, Ali Yusuf Ali, a candidate from Chamraua assembly constituency in Rampur district, quit the party to join Samajwadi Party on Friday.
Ali’s name was included in the list of 125 candidates announced by Congress general secretary incharge UP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Thursday.
He joined Samajwadi Party in Lucknow on Friday.
