Lucknow, Nov 07: Samajwadi Party president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today said his party will be contesting "seriously" in all the four states going to polls on November 20 and December 01. "It will be for the first time that Samawjadi Party would be contesting assembly elections seriously in states outside UP," he told reporters in an informal chat at the media centre at Shastri Bhawan here.
We are hoping good results in Madhya Pradesh as the party organisation is making all out efforts to make its presence felt there, Yadav said.
The Chief Minister said as his party was based "on principles" it was finding it hard to adjust to the present day politics.
"Unlike other parties we cannot harp on politics of caste and religion and therefore it is difficult for us to adjust to the present day politics," Yadav said vowing never to deviate and follow this trend.
Yadav, who came to power for the third time in the state, said the misgovernance of the former Mayawati government forced him to form the coalition government.
In an apparent clarification to the charge of forming the biggest ministry by inducting 98 ministers, Yadav said he was not ready for the compulsions of coalition such as having a jumbo-sized ministry or else he might have made an effort to come to power much earlier.
Bureau Report