Kalyan never was nor would ever be part of SP: Mulayam Singh

In an apparent sign of Samajwadi Party's disenchantment with Kalyan Singh after its crushing defeat in the recent bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today said that the former chief minister never was nor would ever be inducted into the SP.

"I have said this in the past and would repeat it again that Kalyan Singh was never in the SP, nor he will be taken in the party fold in the future," Yadav told reporters here in a reply to a question.

Even Kalyan had said that he was not associated with any party, he said.  When asked about his friendship with the former BJP leader, Yadav said that Congress was also SP's friend, whose government the party had saved in the past.

"We have no foes in politics, we only have ideological differences," he said. On Kalyan sharing the dais with him during the SP's Agra convention, the party supremo said that he cannot stop anyone if he comes willingly.

"I admit that invitation was sent to Kalyan, but it was probably due to a mistake," he said. When asked that Kalyan's son Rajbeer Singh was an office-bearer in the SP, he said that this question was not raised when he was a minister in his government.
   
On why the party did not contest from Etah seat against Kalyan in the Lok Sabha elections, Yadav said that the party did not contest from Rae Bareli and Amethi as well.