No problem with BJP if it leaves Mandir issue: Mulayam

Badaun (UP), November 27: Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav today said he had no problem with BJP if it gives up the contentious Ram Temple issue and starts talking about development.

“In case BJP shuns the path of religion-based politics we will have no problem in having friendly ties with them despite ideological differences”, Yadav who was here to attend a marriage along with his son Akhilesh Yadav told news persons.

Two days ago also during a discussion on price rise in Lok Sabha, Yadav had said that his party and BJP can be friends (in tackling price rise) only if the former gave up playing politics in the name of religion.

Terming Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati an autocrat, Yadav said all such rulers had had a dismal fate.

–Agencies