NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ) chief Mayawati on Wednesday announced that she will not contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections .

Addressing a press conference, the BSP chief said she will focus on campaigning for the general elections.

Earlier some BSP senior leaders had said that there were plans that Mayawati may contest from Nagina or Ambedkarnagar.

However, her alliance partner, SP , has not commented on her decision yet.

Apart from 11 joint rallies scheduled for Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav, she will be on a whistle-stop tour of states and address close to 30 rallies for BSP across India. On April 3 and 4, the BSP chief will make her southern sojourn, where she has inked electoral pacts in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

The BSP and the SP have forged an alliance on 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh . As per the deal, the SP will contest 37 Lok Sabha seats in UP and the BSP 38, leaving three for the Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal and two for Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi).

