Moradabad/ Aligarh Star campaigner Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said the Samajwadi Party was keen on forging an alliance with the Congress for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll but his party had rejected it, reports PTI. "( SP president) Mulayam Singh Yadav was eager for an electoral tie- up with the Congress which was rejected by my party," he told a rally in Moradabad.

" Our alliance is only with the people," the Gandhi scion said.

At an election rally in Aligarh, the Congress general secretary accused Mulayam of making promises to Muslims on job quota which he could not fulfil. " Mulayam is making tall promises to the Muslim community which he knows well that he will never be able to fulfil," he said.

Rahul said Mulayam had been the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh on three occasions and his record on this issue speaks for itself.

" If the SP supremo is sincere about giving quota to backward Muslims, then he should try to emulate the track record of Congressruled states including Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

But he will never do it, that I can assure you," the Congress leader said.