All is well, we will remain with Mayawati: BSP MLAs in MP

Days after all six legislators of the BSP joined the ruling Congress in Rajasthan, the Mayawati- led party's two MLAs in Madhya Pradesh have asserted that they will remain loyal to their party chief and not switch sides.

The two Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAs - Sanjeev Singh Kushwaha and Rambai Singh - are supporting the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh, where the ruling party has a wafer-thin majority in the 230-member Assembly.

On Monday, the BSP had a major setback when all its six MLAs in Rajasthan wrote to Assembly Speaker C P Joshi to merge the legislative party with the Congress.

However, the BSP MLAs in MP on Wednesday assured they were not going to quit the party.

Kushwaha and Singh told PTI that they are with their party leader Mayawati and will remain with her in future too.

"All is well here (in Madhya Pradesh). There is no problem," Kushwaha said.

Asked whether he may also change loyalty like the BSP MLAs in Rajasthan, Kushwaha said if he wants to join the Congress, he will do it with pomp and show.

"There is nothing like that now. Nor I am going to join (the Congress) in future," he asserted.

On whether any directive has come to them from the party chief after the Rajasthan episode, Kushwaha said, "Mayawatiji hasn't told us anything. I am with the party."