The Bahujan Samaj Party on Friday said its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party was restricted to Uttar Pradesh and it would be contesting the coming assembly elections in other states on its own.
"When the BSP-BJP coalition came into being, it was decided that the two parties would contest the Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh together. In other states, including Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan the party would contest on its own," Chief Minister Mayawati said in New Delhi after a meeting with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
She dismissed reports about the possibility of the dissolution of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly, in view of dissidence in BJP, as "rumours".
Describing her one-to-one meeting with Vajpayee as a "courtesy call", Mayawati said the BSP and the BJP were running a coalition government in Uttar Pradesh and whenever she visited Delhi, she meets the prime minister and the deputy prime minister to exchange views on various issues of governance.
When asked about the change of the name of Amethi, Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency, she said the name of the town has not been changed. Only a new district was created which included Amethi and some adjoining areas.
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