Mainpuri: Bitter rivals for 24 years, Mayawati, Mulayam share stage

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati share a stage at a joint rally of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri on Friday, putting aside historical grievances of their shared past.

Mulayam is contesting from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat which goes to the polls in the third phase on April 23. The SP patriarch has won from the party bastion Mainpuri four times.

This is the first time since the 1995 Guest House episode that the two arch-rivals will be on one stage. It has been almost two and half decades since the SP patriarch shared stage with the Bahujan Nayak or Saheb Kanshi Ram.