Lucknow: Putting a spoke in Congress president Sonia Gandhi's plans for a compact secular alliance against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today (Dec 28, 2003) said he favoured only issue-based support to like-minded parties and a post-poll tie-up.

He also categorically ruled out an alliance with any party having any understanding with arch-rival Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

"Formation of an alliance of secular forces is not under our consideration at the moment. We have already taken a decision. We will seek and give issue-based support. An alliance could be considered after the polls depending upon the results," Yadav told reporters.

He was responding to a question about Gandhi's appeal for a compact alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha polls next year.

The Chief Minister, however, said his party will seek and give issue-based support to like-minded parties and "also have seat adjustments".

Making it clear that his party would have nothing to do with any party which entered into any kind of alliance with BSP, he said, "BSP is a corrupt party. It wanted to slap POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) on me. We want to re-establish moral values in politics."

On being pressed further on Sonia's appeal, he said his party had been fighting the communal forces all through. "The real battle against the communal forces will be fought in the plains of Ganga and Yamuna, where only the SP is a force to reckon with."