The BSP reacted to the news with caution.

We could sense from BSP MLAs behaviour in UP assembly that they are ready to be b-team of SP-Laxmikant Bajpai,BJP pic.twitter.com/GcHsEpYFnE — ANI (@ANI_news) August 13, 2014

NEW DELHI: Samjawadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has said he is ready to consider an alliance with Mayawati in Uttar Pradesh, if RJD chief Lalu Prasad mediates, according to Times Now.The SP chief was responding to questions on a suggestion made by Lalu Prasad that the two regional forces in Uttar Pradesh should join hands to take on the BJP.Lalu Prasad's RJD has aligned with Nitish Kumar for assembly bypoll in Bihar.The two regional leaders, who have been bitter rival for years, recently came on one stage to launch joint campaign for Bihar bypoll.The realignment was necessiated after the poor show by regional parties in the Lok Sabha polls.BSP leader Sudhindra Bhadoria said people of UP will never forgive SP for their misrule and asked Mulayam's party to apologize for this.BSP chief Mayawati will decide on future, he said.The BJP, meanwhile, reacted sharply to the development."Chor Chor Mausere Bhai," UP BJP leader Laxmikant Bajpai said responding to the prospect of SP and BSP joining hands."We could sense from BSP MLAs behaviour in UP assembly that they are ready to be B-team of SP," he said.