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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister on Saturday said he had no prime ministerial ambitions and was content with his job in the state. There were so many sections slapped against them. I am sure, the SPs thumping victory will only increase Netajis respect.Asked about BJP making "deteriorating law and order situation" in the state an election issue, he said, "People who are questioning law and order should tell how many sections (of the penal code) were slapped against them. His (Netaji) blessings are with us.Listing some of the schemes, he said: "55 lakh women are getting Samajwadi Pension, 18 lakh laptops were distributed, MBBS seats doubled since Independence, helpline services 108, 100, 109, Kanya Vidya Dhan Yojna.. It was necessary to distance ourselves from people who ultimately wanted to harm the Samajwadi Party," he said referring to the bitter infighting in the Yadav clan. Look at their national president and their state president.Quizzed as to why he removed Mulayam from party president post despite assurances that he will have final say in ticket distribution, Akhilesh said, "If I had got support of only 10 MLAs, I could have lost all respect.there are many more schemes that directly touch the poor. This was an initiative taken by both the Samajwadi Party and the Congress," he said of the new alliance.

The chief minister said the Congress-SP alliance will win an overwhelming majority in the assembly polls and get more than 300 seats in the 403-member House. Netaji (Mulayam) is above all of us in the party. The relationship is intact, father-son relationship can never change.""His (Netaji) photographs are in our campaign.Lashing out at BJP for trying to gain political mileage over surgical strikes, he said, "This was not the first surgical strike, people from Army should tell us that it happened in the past as well.."I am content with my task in Uttar Pradesh and harbour no ambitions of becoming the Prime Minister of the country," he said at an event organised by a news channel in Lucknow. Netaji told me that he will campaign for the alliance," he said.. The cycle belongs to him."To a question on who was behind the family feud, the 43-year-old SP boss said, "(senior SP leader) Azam Khan sahab has clearly identified who created the rift in Samajwadi Party.Asked if Mulayam will campaign for the alliance, he said, "Our only aim is to retain power in the state."Samajwadi Party still belongs to him."People who stay away from Delhi are happier," he said in a lighter vein. People who were conspiring against me, had gotten me out of the party.""I initially wanted we (SP) should go alone, everything was ready but there were people who wanted to stop us.The chief minister, however, refused to acknowledge that SP has revived Congress.""This friendship will last long," Akhilesh said."On joining hands with the Congress, he said, "If this friendship works, 27 saal UP Behaal will become 27 saal UP Khushaal."This is not an act of rebellion.

Now it is the responsibility of our generation to take this movement forward," he said."To a question on his overpowering clout over his father and former SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, Akhilesh sought to allay all controversy surrounding it, saying the father-son relation existed in all its grace and nothing could change it. The responsibility to take Samajwadi Party forward if now with the next generation," he said. Netaji is in our each slogan.""This is not my party, this party is of an ideology."If 50 per cent of people who have benefited from schemes of my government vote for us, we will get 300 seats," he said. Netaji will be the most happy person if SP wins. "This can only be said after the results," he said, adding that even he wanted SP to go it alone but was forced into China Smoking Set Factory an alliance due to the prevailing conditions