Singh also made it clear that his party was not ready to vacate any of the seats won by it in the last Lok Sabha elections, including Allahabad, to the Congress. Besides, he said that it was for the Congress to think how effectively it could contest seats like Ghaziabad and Varanasi amid BJP’s reported plans to field Rajnath Singh and Murli Manohar Joshi from these seats.

Asked whether efforts would be made to rope in RLD in the SP-Congress alliance, Amar Singh said that RLD chief Ajit Singh could not be trusted. He added that Ajit Singh had supported the BSP in the recent trust vote after ensuring that the Congress-led government renamed the Amausi airport in Lucknow after his father late Chaudhury Charan Singh and later held talks with BJP’s Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.