LUCKNOW: The Bharatiya Janata Party will not enter into alliance with any political party and will contest next year's Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on its own.

Spelling out the party's agenda, BJP vice-president and former U.P. Chief Minister Kalyan Singh said on Thursday that earlier experiments of pre-poll and post-poll alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party of Mayawati and Rashtriya Lok Dal of Chaudhary Ajit Singh had proved disastrous for the party.

He said experience had shown that the BJP gained nothing from these experiments; in fact, it was the loser. Hence it has been decided to go it alone in next year's battle of the ballot.

Coalition experiment

In the past the BJP formed coalition Governments twice with the BSP, once in 1995 and the second time in 1997, Ms. Mayawati being the Chief Minister on both occasions.

In the gram panchayat elections in 2005, the BJP had forged an alliance with RLD in Aligarh, Mr Singh's hometown, but the final outcome was in favour of Ajit Singh's party.

He said in order to wrest the initiative from the Samajwadi Party and the BSP, preparations have already started for the elections. Stating that the winning-getting formula would be followed in allotment of tickets, he disclosed that probable candidates in around 250 Assembly constituencies had already been identified and the opinion of local party workers would be taken into account when the names are finalised by the election committee.

Mr. Singh said maximum tickets would be given to youth and efforts would be made to field at least one women candidate in each of the 70 districts of the State. He indicated that social equations and social balance would be maintained in ticket distribution. "As far as possible, representation would be given to all sections of society."

He said as part of the poll strategy, the BJP was working on the concept of micro planning and booth management, which in broad terms meant 20 youths for one booth.

For the local bodies elections, likely to be held this coming September, Mr. Singh said the BJP would contest the polls on the party symbol. He assailed the Samajwadi Party Government in U.P. and said it should be dismissed and President's Rule imposed to ensure free and fair conduct of the local bodies elections.

The former Chief Minister, who is in charge of the BJP's U.P. affairs, said he would kick off his party's election campaign after a "darshan" of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. He said the date of his Ayodhya visit would be announced later.

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