Varanasi, June 16: Ruling out the possibility of mid-term polls to the Uttar Pradesh assembly if the Mayawati government fell, Rastriya Kranti Party president Kalyan Singh said today the opposition would provide an alternative government. Maintaining that Mayawati had lost her majority with the withdrawal of support by RLD, Singh told reporters that a ministry reduced to a minority could not be allowed to dissolve the assembly.

Questioning Chief Minister Mayawati's claim that her government continued to enjoy majority, he dared her to call an assembly session to prove her support and urged the Governor to summon a special session to test the chief minister's claim.

"She does not have the courage to call a session of the assembly to prove her majority', Singh said, adding "her government was reduced to a minority as soon as the 14-member Rashtriya Lok Dal group withdrew support to her."

He claimed that out of 402 members, 214 members were with the opposition.

Bureau Report