Kanpur: Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav ruled out alliances with bigger parties in Uttar Pradesh.
He also made it clear that and said that the party's experience of forming ties with bigger political parties was 'not great'.
"Alliances are made in accordance with the situation. We did not have a great experience when formed alliances with big political parties."
"Now, our party will try to bring small parties in the political alliance to defeat BJP," he told reporters in Hamirpur district where his first leg of the rath yatra culminated on Tuesday.
On the question of making alliance with the Party of Owaisi his trusted soldier Abu Asim Azmi responded in unclear manner. He maintained that there was need to check the BJP and it was possible through his SP.