Congress not 'untouchable', says Mulayam

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New Delhi, July 1:: Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday said that the talks between Amar Singh and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee were political and not meant for public.

"No decision on supporting Congress has been taken so far. Party stand on the issue will be taken only after the UNPA meeting on July 3," Mulayam said.

In further signals that it may move close to Congress, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said on Tuesday that his party has no political enemies as National Security Adviser M K Narayanan will meet his party leaders for giving a briefing on the Indo-US nuclear deal on Wednesday.

Hectic activities marked the SP camp after Monday night's meeting between Amar Singh and External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee with Singh calling on CPI(M) General Prakash Karat on Tuesday.

Yadav, who arrived in New Delhi for consultations with party leaders ahead of the UNPA meeting on Thursday, made significant comments to say that his party had no political enemies though it may have ideological differences.

He added that in Uttar Pradesh BJP and BSP were" one force" for his party. Despite being ditched by BSP thrice in the past, the BJP was ready to go with it, he added.

After consultations with Yadav, who arrived here this morning from Lucknow, Singh met Karat and later told reporters that if anything "new" on the nuclear deal was provided by the government the party was ready to consider.

He said Narayanan will brief party leaders on Wednesday about the nuclear deal and his party would take a stand if a crisis erupts on the issue.

Both the leaders said the Left parties have given them all the inputs on the nuclear and on that basis the party had taken a stand. There was no need for changing it. "So far we don't have any new facts (on the deal). Only when we get some new facts can we consider them, Singh said.

Singh dismissed his meeting with Mukherjee as personal. "My relations with Pranab Mukherjee go back to my Congress days. I went to meet him on Monday night as we had to discuss some personal issue. There was nothing official about the meeting and it was a purely personal one," he said.