After winning 224 assembly seats and establishing his son Akhilesh as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has now set his eyes at the Parliament. Speaking at a party function on the birth anniversary of Ram Manohar Lohia, Mulayam said "There is no guarantee when the Lok Sabha elections may take place," and asked his son Akhilesh Yadav to fulfil all promises made in the party’s assembly poll manifesto within a year.

He gave call to the party cadre to target all the 80 MP seats in the state in the coming elections. However, the Congress brushed aside Mulayam's statement on early polls. "There is obviously no guarantee that the sky may not fall on our heads or that (BJP leader) BS Yeddyurappa will stop demanding the (Karnataka) CM’s chair. But the possibility of mid-term polls is as remote as that," said party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi.

The Trinamool Congress, a key and troublesome ally of the UPA, refused to comment on Mulayam's remark. Mulayam asked Akhilesh to show "at least one miraculous act of governance in the next six months" and cautioned that the best of policies fail if the intent isn't clean. "We have to see that power doesn’t turn the state government arrogant the way it did the last regime," he said. In political circle at the Centre, a talk is doing rounds that there is every possibility of sprouting up of a third front sans BJP and Mulayam is making moves in that direction. "Hence the talk of mid-term polls," they say.