MULAYAM REFUSES TO CAMPAIGN, DISOWNS PACT

now two wheels of the Samajwadi Party. “Agar cycle ko haath mil jaye to aur tez chalegi,” he said and added that all the people had waited for ‘achche din’ but none had come.

On the issue of Ms Priyanka Gandhi Vadra campaigning for the alliance, Mr Rahul Gandhi said, “She is my sister and had always helped me tremendously and it will be her decision entirely is she wants to campaign. These are operational details which will be worked out later.”

Mr Akhilesh also said that it was up to his wife Dimple Yadav to take a call on campaigning. Even before the euphoria over the Congress –Samajwadi alliance could settle down, Samajwadi patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav struck a discordant note on Sunday night when he said that he did not approve of the alliance and would not campaign for the candidates.

In an interview to a news agency, he said that the Samajwadi Party was capable of contesting the elections on its own and there was no need for an alliance. “I have always fought against the Congress and now the party is moving away from its ideology,” he said.

“What will our leaders who have been denied tickets do now? Will they sit at home for five years,” he asked.

Mr Yadav was apparently upset at the fact that on Sunday itself, his trusted leader Narad Rai joined the BSP after being denied ticket by Mr Akhilesh Yadav.