UP polls: Ready to step down as CM candidate if Congress-SP join hands, says Sheila Dikshit firstpost.com

Dikshit, even suggested that she is ready to step down as the chief ministerial candidate, in case Congress forges an alliance with Akhilesh yadav-led Samajwadi Party. With the family feud in Samajwadi Party worsening, Congress on Wednesday appeared ambivalent on the issue of a possible alliance with the party for upcoming Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.
Congress' chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit took a favourable tone towards the Akhilesh Yadav camp of the warring Samajwadi Party with rumours doing the rounds that the parties may go for a post-poll alliance if Mulayam and Akhilesh fail to reach truce.