Six of the eight leaders in the new front are former BSP leaders who now want to settle scores with Chief Minister Mayawati.

The parties are Apna Dal, DS4, National Lok Hind Party, Bharatiya Samaj Party, Bharatiya Sarvodaya Party, Lokpriya Samaj Party, Vanchit Jamaat Party and Rashtriya Kamgar Party.

Talking to mediapersons on Friday, Apna Dal president Sonelal Patel said the new front — the name for which will be decided later — will contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats on its own in UP. It plans to hold a series of rallies across the state starting next month.

Ruling out the possibility of any truck with the Bharatiya Janata Party or the Samajwadi Party, Patel said: “Mulayam Singh Yadav cannot be trusted as he has only used the OBCs, SCs and minorities for his political ends. Since a few of the parties have a presence in other states, the front will contest in 14 states.”

Former state minister R K Choudhury, who now heads DS4, said: “In the coming Lok Sabha elections, we will make our presence felt and in the next Assembly elections, we will hold the key to government formation the state. All the leaders in the front have influence in different parts of the state. Together we will emerge as a force to reckon with.”

Choudhury accused Mayawati of showing the door to all senior leaders who were following the path of late Kanshi Ram.

“Mayawati has knocked off the pillars of the party and is now running the BSP under the influence of Manuwadis — the same Manuwadis that Kanshi Ram had battled against all his life. The ideological dilution and the commercialisation of the party have disillusioned the Dalits. The new front will cater to the aspirations of Dalits, Muslims and backward castes,” he said.