New Delhi, Oct 05: The Bahujan Samaj Party is not likely to join the NDA government at the Centre even though it is heading a coalition in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with the BJP.
The prospects of the BSP joining the BJP-led NDA coalition at the Centre were not in the offing as of now since the two parties would first have to work out an alliance for Lok Sabha elections, party sources said.

Another factor that was weighing against BSP joining the Government at the Centre was that the party leadership was not keen on another "power centre" emerging at the Centre, the sources said.

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The BSP, with 14 MPs in the Lok Sabha, is supporting the Vajpayee government from outside. "As of now the BSP would continue to maintain this rather than joining the government," the BJP sources said.

The sources said Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani attending the Lucknow rally on September 28 was to signal the party cadres that the BSP-BJP alliance was firm unlike the past coalition governments formed by the two parties.

"We have to look at the long term interests of the party in the state which is crucial for BJP and it is in view of this that the party was keen on working out an alliance with BSP in Uttar Pradesh for Lok Sabha elections. The alliance in Uttar Pradesh would be beneficial to the party even at the all India level," the sources said. Bureau Report