Amar Singh said, "Our alliance with Congress is based on long term credibility and is not an alliance of opportunism."
Indicating that its alliance with Congress is very much on, the Samajwadi Party ruled out any partnership with the Third Front on Tuesday, saying it has got no "significance".
"We are with Sonia Gandhi and will continue to remain with her. The Left leaders (main constituents of the Front) are currently relying on Mayawati. They are confused. They have Mayawati in their lives right now so how can Mulayam Singh Yadav be with them," SP general secretary Amar Singh said here.
When asked whether SP could give the Front a thought in case Mayawati leaves it, he said, "I did not say this...An intelligent person should get the hint. When Karat and Mayawati are together then how can a question of any alliance between Third Front and SP arise?"
The SP leader said that the Left parties should decide whether they want Mayawati or Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Comparing the SP-Congress alliance with the Third Front, Singh said, "Our alliance with Congress is based on long term credibility and is not an alliance of opportunism."
He added that "the Front does not have any significance... only popular names are there".
Attacking former prime minister HD Deve Gowda whose JD(S) is a constituent of the Front, Singh said that "he has no mass base and credibility. He is sometimes with Congress or sometimes with BJP. In politics consistency is required, which builds credibility. This is lacking in his politics".
When asked that SP has also been involved with the politics of setting up a Third Front earlier, Singh said, "We have made such alliances, but then we have also seen leaders going back on their words. The Third Front is a group of regional parties, which periodically comes alive."
On the rift between the BJP and BJD in Orissa, the SP leader said that the tussle between the two parties was more on seat sharing and not due to any ideological differences.
"The rift between them was only for seats as BJP was asking for more seats in the state...We may not be having a proper coordination on seats with Congress in Uttar Pradesh, but at least we have ideological coordination with them. In politics, the coordination of ideologies is more important than coordination of seats," Singh said.
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