Releasing the Samajwadi Party's manifesto in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow on Saturday, the party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav accused both the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Congress president Sonia Gandhi for ignoring his party despite his outside support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government during the trust vote.

'The prime minister and the Congress party have been ignoring us since the trust vote,' Mulayam Singh said and added that his party saved UPA government when Manmohan Singh was talking about resigning, if the nuclear deal had not passed.

Talking about the failed seat-sharing deal with Congress, he said: 'We were ready to give the Congress 17 seats and I was sure they could have easily won at least 14 of them with SP help. But they did not agree to this, and now let’s see how many seats they get.

During the July 22, 2008 trust vote in the parliament, the Samajwadi Party, with 39 MPs, had bailed out the government, when UPA’s Left allies withdrew support over the much-debated Indo-US nuclear deal.

Blaming the Congress entirely for the failed alliance in Uttar Pradesh, he said ‘there are some advisors who always consider themselves above the party, and Congress party leaders are responsible for the present situation as they followed the words of such advisors.’

Mulayam Singh Yadav further said that his party, along with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Lok Janasakti Pary (LJP) Ramvilas Paswan, bailed the UPA government out of trouble on many occasions, but in the end, Congress party insulted him.

The SP supremo, however, expressed contentment over his alliance in Bihar with RJD and LJP where he expected to get a clear majority.