Nagpur: As the countdown for early Lok Sabha poll begins, the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) today (Jan 18, 2004) rejected any possibility of electoral alliances with Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) led by Mayawati.

"There is no possibility of an electoral alliance either with Mulayam Singh or Mayawati," Mahajan said in a press conference.

"BJP is yet to recover from the trauma of pulling down of the Government in Uttar Pradesh by Mayawati," he said.

On alliance with Om Prakash Chautala's INLD (Indian National Lok Dal), Mahajan said "Even if he does not align with us, he is not going to have an alliance with Congress in Haryana."

On Cong-NCP (National Congress Party) alliance, Mahajan said if NCP chief Sharad Pawar strikes a pre-poll alliance with Congress with whom he broke on the issue of foreign origin of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, the anti-Sonia votes, which his party had secured during previous elections, would come back to BJP.

"We did not go to NCP, it was NCP which had approached BJP. The proposed Cong-NCP tie-up will have no affect on our poll prospects in Maharashtra," he said.

"If you see the history of elections in the past, the Congress has always suffered whenever Pawar had gone close to it," Mahajan said.

"Neither Congress nor Pawar has understood it," he quipped.