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Angry Mulayam rules out alliance with Congress
Monday, February 3 103 17:05 Hrs (IST)

New Delhi: Still angry over not getting support in its efforts to form a government in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party (SP) on February 3 ruled out forging any front with Congress.

"Now Samajwadi Party will not join any front. It will only give and take issue-based support," SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav told reporters in New Delhi.

Yadav, who held a 75-minute meeting with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on February 2, said there was no possibility of formation of an alliance in Uttar Pradesh to take on the (Bahujan Samaj Party) BSP-BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) government.

"There is neither any plan nor any possibility," he said.

Asked what transpired at yesterday's long meeting with Gandhi, the SP leader said he would not divulge the details.

Referring to the split in the Congress Legislature Party in Uttar Pradesh, he said, "I did not like it".

Yadav said that since SP believed in doing Opposition politics honestly, it did not like a split in the Opposition.

He, however, said the Congress leadership's decision showed "dilemma" in its approach. Had it taken the decision to support SP at the right time (in Uttar Pradesh), Congress would not have split, he said.

Yadav said if the Congress was honest in its fight for secularism and against communalism, it should have extended support to his party for government formation. But it did not do so, showing its dilemma in taking a decision.

PTI


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