BJP makes strategies sitting in AC rooms: Kalyan

“Where were the issues related to the common man,the youth,the poor and farmers? These are the core issues that BJP did not raise,” Singh said.

He said the top BJP leadership will have to take responsibility for its loss in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections.

“What do you mean by collective responsibility? The top leaders will have to sit and analyse the reasons behind their loss,” he said.

Singh,who won as an Independent backed by Samajwadi Party from Etah Lok Sabha seat,asserted that Samajwadi Party will win the 2012 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

“In the just concluded Lok Sabha elections people choose UPA over NDA. However,I am saying with confidence that Samajwadi Party will emerge victorious in the next assembly elections there. People are not happy with the governance of Mayawati’s BSP and therefore SP will emerge successful,” Singh said.

On why he had come close to SP prior to the LS elections,the former BJP leader said,”I had left BJP and had no plans of retiring from politics. Mulayam Singh ji came forward with his offer of friendship and I accepted it.”

He also dismissed the theory that his closeness with SP eroded Mulayam Singh’s Muslim vote base. “Had that been the case,then why has Jaya Prada won from Rampur and how could I have won from Etah?” was his refrain.

Kalyan won as an Independent from Etah,which along with Rampur,is a Muslim-dominated seat.