Accepting the defeat, Yadav alleged that Congress has spent crores of rupees in campaigning.
Amid fresh strains with Congress after the Firozabad Lok Sabha by-election, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav today said his party will take a decision "at the right time" on the issue of support to the UPA.
"The party will look into the matter at the right time," he said when asked whether SP will withdraw support from the UPA after Congress candidate Raj Babbar defeated Yadav's daughter-in-law Dimple in the by-election, necessitated after her husband Akhilesh vacated the seat and retained Kannuj.
"We extended support to Congress to prevent BJP," he said, parrying a direct reply to the question by reporters.
When pressed further, he said it is only six months of the UPA-II.
Accepting the defeat, Yadav alleged that Congress has spent crores of rupees in campaigning. "We are in the process of reviewing the reasons behind our performance," he said.
Maintaining that everyone knew how by-elections are contested and won, he said, "When the SP was in power we won all the by-elections barring one for Ghazipur, that too due to a political murder...Even the BSP lost Akbarpur seat, which was vacated by its president Mayawati."
"I would like to tell all those who dream of writing me off that when a lady with grit like Indira Gandhi could not finish me, then no person can do so," he said.
He said SP was written off in the past several times, "but we bounced back time and again. The party will do it again in the future and will get absolute majority on its own
in the next assembly elections."
Regarding SP's defeat in the assembly by-elections in his home turf Etawah, he again blamed Congress.
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