shahjanapur in what has come as bad news for congress here samajwadi party leader abdul kadir has decided to contest as an independent from tilhar against congress candidate and former union minister jitin prasad kadir strongly believes that spcongress alliance will not work as local congress leaders dont have very good relationship with sp leaders this is the reason why he filed his nomination from tilhar as an independent candidate on monday a large crowd had gathered when kadir arrived to file his nomination papers and this does not bode well for sp as well as congress abdul kadir is a very good friend of state cabinet minister haji riyaz ahmed and he is believed to be a strong candidate from tilhar constituency mainly because of the huge number of muslim and backward voters supporting him the undivided attention of entire congress unit is only on tilhar constituency because one of their strongest candidate jitin prasad is contesting from the seat the win of jitin prasad is a prestige issue for congress because he belongs to the royal family of shahjahanpur under these circumstances kadir may play spoilsport for jitin prasad the congress unit has already taken up this matter with sp supremo and they are expecting that abdul kadir will withdraw his nomination soon meanwhile kadir said he had already made up his mind to contest from the seat and that he will always support akhilesh yadav come what may talking to toi kadir said i have been working in tilhar constituency for quite awhile now and i my chances of winning are great i respect the decision of akhilesh yadav about the alliance with congress but congress may ditch sp anytime i will definitely win from tilhar and my support is always with akhilesh yadav district president of congress unit kaushal mishra told toi we have raised this issue and kadir may withdraw his nomination soon we are working hard in tilhar and our candidate will win