After AIMIM's Asaduddin Owaisi and Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) chief Chandrashekhar Azad announced their alliance for UP polls, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said the alliance would reduce BJP's vote share by 2-3%. "Truth is that such fronts make democracy even stronger...provided they're driven by desire to serve their own society’s welfare, not some third party’s sinister agenda," he added.