Mulayam rules out SP joining govt at the Centre

Mulayam rules out SP joining govt at the Centre

  Samajwadi Party, which provides outside support to the UPA government at the Centre, on Monday ruled out joining it, dismissing speculation that the party was warming up to the Congress.

"We are not joining the government," SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav told a press conference in Lucknow shortly after the party joined Trinamool Congress and its rival BSP in a walk out in the Lok Sabha during voting on an opposition-sponsored amendment to the President's address. Yadav, who was flanked by his son and UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and party spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary, said " Why would we join the UPA government now with only one year to go. Had we wanted to join, we would have joined it earlier."