At a press conference, SP and Rashtriya Loktantrik Morcha (RLM) spokesman Amar Singh said the BJP's welcoming of the Congress' revised stand on Hindutva exposed the nexus between the two parties. This understanding had also been reflected in their joining hands on the Patents Bill, the IRA Bill, Women's Reservation Bill and the election of the Deputy Speaker, he charged.

Singh said the Congress had walked into the BJP's trap and was now saying that Hinduism was the most effective guarantor of secularism. This game was however not new to the Congress, he pointed out, recalling that it was that party which had presided over the shilanyas at Ayodhya. The two parties were faces of the same coin, he said.

He also attacked the Congress for failing to ensure the security of women, giving the instances of the rapeof nuns in Madhya Pradesh and the alleged gangrape of Anjana Mishra in Orissa.

Asked whether the RLM would support the Congress or take its support in the formation of an alternative government if and when the Vajpayee Government fell, he remarked: ``Neither of the options is possible.''

The SP, he said, would launch a campaign against the Kalyan Singh Government in Uttar Pradesh from February 5 to protest against ``fake encounters'' in which 500 of his party workers had been killed in the state. It would also bring the matter to the notice of the President soon.