Dismissing talk of a post-poll alliance with BJP, the Samajwadi Party (SP) today said a tie-up with Congress was ‘‘possible’’ after the Lok Sabha elections as no secular alternative could emerge without SP Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav.‘‘If Congress and DMK can come together despite the DMK allegedly being involved in the Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, then why can’t Congress and SP. We have not spoken a word against Sonia Gandhi’’, SP general secretary Amar Singh said after releasing a list of 26 candidates from Madhya Pradesh. Dubbing as ‘‘political abuse’’ charges of the SP aligning with BJP, he said his party had been instrumental in relegating the saffron forces to only the third playe in Uttar Pradesh politics.He said the party has no plans to withdraw its candidate from Rae Bareli, from where Sonia is contesting. ‘‘We had not put up any candidate from Amethi as we felt she would be contesting from there,’’ he said.Singh was critical of RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav and said there was ‘‘remote possibility’’ of his becoming the prime minister in his life time.
