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SP to go it alone in UP assembly polls

Buoyed by its performance in the recent civic elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party Tuesday said it would go it alone in the coming assembly elections in the state.

"There is no question of forging alliance with any party," party general secretary Amar Singh told reporters in New Delhi.

Singh said his party had fared "exceedingly well" in the recent municipal corporation elections in Uttar Pradesh gaining control over 58 municipalities and 106 nagar (town) panchayats, leaving rivals the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress far behind.

He said in the municipal corporation elections, the BJP finished second winning 45 municipalties. The BSP won 22 and the Congress 15.

"Our performance has been far better than any of these parties though our victory has not been rightly projected," he said.

In the nagar panchayats, he said, the SP with 106 had left the BJP trailing far behind with 61, followed by the BSP at 49 and Congress at only 15. He also said that while SP won a total of 253 corporator seat, the BJP came second with 232.

Singh said that after its "spectacular success" in the recent elections for rural areas, his party scored major gains in the urban areas mostly at the cost of the BJP and Congress.

He said the SP had done particularly well in the politically significant eastern U P and opened its account in Bundelkhand, a region where it hardly had a presence.

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