Akhilesh who said that he is “open to all means to form Government in Uttar Paradeh”, hinted at forming the alliance between SP and BSP; which if happens would take place after 24 years.
When Mulayam shook hands with Mayawati to form Government in UP:
- In 1993 Mulayam Singh formed a government in Uttar Pradesh with the support of BSP Supremo Kanshi Ram. At that time the Uttarakhand was a part of Uttar Pradesh and the total number of seats were 422
- Mulayam fought on 256 seats and 164 seats to Bahujan Samaj Party to fight the polls
- Surprisingly, the BSP-SP alliance won the 1993 elections where SP bagged 109 seats and 67 seats were won by BSP
- After this, Mulayam Singh formed a government in UP, and became CM with the help of BSP
- Post this, Mayawati proposed to withdraw the support and Mulayam lost the majority in the state
- On June 2, 1995 Mayawati was attacked in room number 1 of state guest house where she was addressing a meeting with her MLAs and was attacked by SP MLAs. The SP MLAs that time talked about teaching a lesson to Mayawati
- After this incident the relations between Mayawati and SP got strained and the party didn’t form any pre-election or post-election alliance