New Delhi: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which had won 19 seats in the last Lok Sabha elections, on Tuesday said it would emerge as the third largest party after the General Elections and would play an important role in the formation of the next government.
''We are fast on completing the process of finalisation of our candidates in Uttar Pradesh and other states, but irrespective of that the party election work was going on a war footing,'' a party spokesperson said in New Delhi.
No alliance anywhere, whether in Uttar Pradesh or anyother state, was going to affect the party's votebank, he said.
On the efforts of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda to come up with the Third Front again, he said it was not for the first time that such a front was being floated.
''Whenever, the elections come, such groupings appear and they disappear with the same speed they are formed,'' the spokesperson said.
Regarding the poll tie-up between the BJP and the Rashtriya Lok Dal of Ajit Singh, he said his party was not affected at all by any kind of alliance between any parties in the state.
''Our considered stand is that we will have no pre-poll alliance, and we are confident of emerging the third largest party after the Congress and the BJP,'' he said.
The BSP had won 19 seats, all from Uttar Pradesh, in the last Lok Sabha elections, securing 5.33 per cent votes. The party had contested 435 seats.
However, its arch rival in the state, Samajwadi Party had won 36 seats, securing only 4.32 per cent votes.
The BSP hopes that it would convert its higher vote percentage in greater number of seats in the coming elections.
Since the last Lok Sabha elections, the BSP has also extended its base to other states, including the national capital, as has been shown by the results of the November Assembly elections.
The Congress had won 145 seats and the BJP 138 seats in the last elections.
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