Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh blasted the Centre on Thursday, staying it wanted to jail him. 

"I gave this government a new lease of life and now it is preparing to send me to jail," Mulayam said, accusing the Centre of using the CBI to nail him. "It is at the (Central) government's behest that Rs10,000 has been shown as 1 lakh and Rs35,000 entered as 35 lakh (in the disproportionate assets case)," he said. "A cinema hall in Etawah has been shown as belonging to me, which is a big lie... why will a person who doesn't even see movies, build a cinema hall?" he quipped. 

Such statements only show that the SP-Congress alliance is bound to come unstuck even before it takes shape.

Deepak Gidwani/ DNA-Daily News & Analysis Source: 3D Syndication