Voicing displeasure over the alliance between Samajwadi Party and the Congress, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on Sunday said he would not campaign for the alliance in the State assembly polls.
“I am completely against the alliance. I will not campaign for it,” Mulayam said on a day his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi held their first joint press conference in Lucknow and held a road show displaying great bonhomie.
Mr. Mulayam, who had rejected the possibility of an alliance for the assembly elections before being deposed as party president by Akhilesh, said, “Congress ruled the country for a long time and made it laggard. We always fought against Congress.”
“The SP is capable of contesting elections alone. In the past, the party fought alone and formed government with a majority. No occasion arose for effecting an alliance,” he said.
