'If Congress behaves like this....': Akhilesh Yadav amid spat over seat-sharing in Madhya Pradesh polls

Miffed with the Congress over the failure to arrive at a seat-sharing arrangement in Madhya Pradesh assembly polls, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday again deprecated the INDIA bloc ally, saying "if the Congress behaves like this, who will stand with them".

"I am not giving any advice or suggestions to the Congress party but there is a big challenge before the nation. The BJP is a big party. It is a very organised side. So there should be no confusion regarding it in any party. If you fight with confusion you will not win any election," the Samajwadi Party (SP) president told reporters here.

He said, "If the Congress behaves like this, who will stand with them." On Thursday, Akhilesh Yadav had expressed unhappiness over the Congress not allocating any seat to the SP despite talks on seat sharing in MP and suggested that the Congress could get the same treatment from his party in Uttar Pradesh.

The SP chief had said his party leaders wouldn't have answered calls from the Congress for a meeting in Madhya Pradesh had he known that the INDIA alliance was confined to the national level. "I must have got confused," he had told reporters.

Hitting back, UPCC president Ajay Rai said on Friday that Yadav cannot blame the Congress as the SP released its list of candidates before his party and was benefitting the BJP by contesting separately.

However, the SP president reiterated that the INDIA alliance should have clarified that there would be no tie-up in the state elections.