BJP's no to post-poll alliance in UP

Lucknow, May 9 (UNI) Conceding that no party including the BJP, would get majority in the Uttar Pradesh assembly the counting to which is scheduled on May 11, BJP Vice President M Vekaiah Naidu today said his party stuck to its earlier stand of not going to form government in alliance.

''Na Kisi Se Lena, Na Kisi Ko Dena ( Neither it will take nor give support to any one),'' is the watch line of the BJP, the senior eader told reporters here at a luncheon press conference.

Mr Naidu, however, speaking on his party's behalf, sounded rather unclear on the post-poll aliiance in UP saying ''the number of indpendent candidates desiring to extend support and other prevailing factors inclusive of the 'views' of the public would be considered after the results were out.

The BJP's Central Parlaimentary Board would meet in New Delhi on the evening of May 11 to review the results and to decide the subsequent strategy in terms of the government formation in Uttar Pradesh, he said. Any decision would emerge after consulations of the Central and UP leaders, he added.

The senior BJP leader evaded direct response to the specific questions if the BJP would go for the alliance in order to form government in the state despite its earlier assertion that it would like to sit in the opposition in case of being short of the majority. ''Let us wait for two more days before everything would be clear by then,'' was his crisp reply.

He said no party getting majority in UP was the assessment of the BJP and it was not based on the results of various exit polls. ''The party leaders and the party workers worked hard to put the BJP in the main fight all the time and this itself is important,'' he said.

Coming out in favour of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi on the issue of alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin, the BJP leader said it was the muslim appeasement of the Congress and other parties at the worst when they were supporting the criminal against whom many cases were registered.

He also released a document which had listed cases against Sohrabuddin and said the attack on Mr Modi had become a favorite pass time of some of non-BJP parties in the country.

Mr Naidu complemented the Election Commission for peaceful conduct of the seven-phase UP polls started on April 7 and lasted on May 8. ''The process of poll reforms which was started by T N Sheshan has progressed well since then and the present polls were testimony of this fact,'' he said.

UNI