BJP won't tie-up with SP, BSP: Mahajan

"There is no possibility of an electoral alliance either with Mulayam Singh or Mayawati," Pramod Mahajan told a press conference in Nagpur.

"BJP is yet to recover from the trauma of pulling down of the government in Uttar Pradesh by Mayawati," he said.

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On alliance with Om Prakash Chautala's INLD, Mahajan said "even if he does not align with us, he is not going to have an alliance with Congress in Haryana."

On Cong-NCP alliance, Mahajan said if NCP chief Sharad Pawar strikes a pre-poll alliance with Congress with whom he broke on the issue of foreign origin of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, the anti-Sonia votes, which his party had secured during previous elections, would come back to BJP.

"We did not go to NCP, it was NCP which had approached BJP," he said adding "the proposed Cong-NCP tie-up will have no affect on our poll prospects in Maharashtra."

"If you see the history of elections in the past, the Congress has always suffered whenever Pawar had gone close to it," Mahajan said.

"Neither Congress nor Pawar has understood it," he quipped.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpyee is going strong and his age factor will in no way hamper the poll campaign of BJP-led NDA during the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, BJP general secretary Pramod Mahajan said in Nagpur yesterday.