Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Mohammed Azam Khan said on Tuesday that all options were open for him to decide his future course and hinted at leaving politics.

"I would not go to anyone on my own. I am not a liability to anyone. I have not spoken to anybody, neither Congress nor Mayawati," Khan, who had gone against the party line to oppose the candidature of film actress and Samajwadi Party nominee Jaya Prada in Rampur Lok Sabha constituency, told reporters in New Delhi.

He, however, said he could even think of a career outside politics. "It is not that I will remain in politics for ever," he added.

"As of now, both assembly and Lok Sabha elections are far away but my focus will be on 12 assembly seats and one Lok Sabha seat of Ferozabad in Uttar Pradesh which will go to bypoll. I have not yet decided whom to support," SP MLA from Rampur Khas said.

He claimed he was "yet to recover from the shock of being removed from the party."

Khan was recently expelled from SP for allegedly indulging in "anti-party" activities but has so far not resigned as MLA. The SP leadership had asked him to resign from his assembly membership and dared him to contest from Rampur Khas as an independent.

Asked whether he was angry with the SP leadership because of former BJP leader Kalyan Singh's proximity with Mulayam Singh Yadav or Amar Singh's growing clout in the organisation, Khan said Amar Singh is a "political Dalit as of now."

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