New Delhi: After failing to make any breakthrough in its efforts to placate dissident party MLAs, BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) on November 1 warned it could recommend their disqualification under the Anti-Defection Law even as it hoped an "amicable and honourable" settlement would be found out to the crisis.

"We are considering all options including recommendation of disqualification of those going against the party's programmes and policies as provided in the Anti-Defection law," party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters in New Delhi.

Naqvi also ruled out the possibility of the Mayawati government seeking a vote of confidence saying, "Only when we feel we are in a minority, we would seek a trust vote".

"Our priority is to maintain stability and development. All necessary steps are being taken at all levels to ensure there is no threat to the state government," he said.

Asked why the party was not taking any action against the MLAs who had met the Governor and reportedly withdrawn support to the government, he said, "ours is a democratic party and we take steps as per a due process".

Alleging that "moneybags, blackmarketeers and power brokers" had conspired to capture power in the state, he charged the Samajwadi Party with "trying to push the state towards mid-term polls and warned that "BJP will not allow its designs to succeed and its actions would boomerang."

He said senior leaders were talking to the rebels and the party high command was "satisfied" with it.

Earlier, BJP president Venkaiah Naidu said efforts were on for an "honourable and amicable" settlement as the party wanted the government to continue without denting the party's image and discipline.

PTI