LUCKNOW: Just before BSP chief

said she won't tie up with Congress in MP, SP national president Akhilesh Yadav also put the grand old party on notice, saying it shouldn't waste time and should adopt a large-hearted approach towards like-minded parties to join their battle against BJP in the forthcoming state elections.

“It is the responsibility of the Congress party to take other parties along and fight elections,” he said in an apparent reference to the possibility of an alliance between the Congress and the BSP in MP and

assembly elections to be held by yearend. “The Congress party should take a call on joining hands with other parties before times runs out and other parties declare their candidates,” he said, talking to the reporters just before Mayawati announced her decision to go it alone in MP assembly polls.

Asked to respond to Congress party’s allegations that

Mayawati was not willing to go with the Congress in MP because she was afraid of the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED), Akhilesh said he was not aware of what the Congress party in MP has said. “But one thing I know for a fact is that BSP is one party which is afraid of no one,” Akhilesh said.

“It is not proper to level such allegations. Tomorrow, if I don’t enter into an alliance with some party, then even I can be accused of taking the decision because I am afraid. This is not fair,” he said.