Even as it supports the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre,the Samajwadi Party has started working on a strategy to maintain distance from the Congress by flaunting its socialist credentials through public programmes. I request my colleagues in the party,Mohan Singh and Brij Bhushan Tiwari,to draft a proposal regarding the strategy to advocate about compulsory common schooling for consideration during the next meeting of the national executive of the party, Mulayam said at Janeshwar Mishras residence on Wednesday. Mulayam is learnt to have already begun consultations with other senior party leaders to formulate the strategy regarding distancing the party from the Congress that could be put for consideration of the SP national executive in Agra later this month. The national executive of the Samajwadi party is likely to put the ruling BSP in the state as well as the Congress on the same pedestal. Earlier,Mulayams opposition to the Indo-Pak joint statement and End User Monitoring Agreement has already given enough hints of his careful attempts at keeping distance from the Congress.
