SP to decide on support to UPA ‘at the right time’: Mulayam

“We extended support to the Congress to prevent the BJP from coming to power,” he said.

Accepting defeat,Yadav alleged that Congress has spent crores of rupees in campaigning.

“We are in the process of reviewing the reasons behind our performance,” he said.

Maintaining that everyone knows how by-elections are contested and won,he said: “When the SP was in power we won all the by-elections barring one for Ghazipur and that too due to a political murder. Even the BSP lost Akbarpur seat,which was vacated by its president Mayawati.”

“I would like to tell all those who dream of writing me off that when a lady like Indira Gandhi could not finish me then no person can do the same,” he said.

According to Yadav,SP was written off in the past too,“but we bounced back time and again. The party will do it again in the future and will get absolute majority on its own in the next assembly elections.”

Regarding SP’s defeat in the Assembly by-elections in his home turf Etawah,he again blamed the Congress.