“While elections are underway, statement apprehending President's rule in the state is undermining the power of people in democracy and its an insult...Congress, it seems has lost faith of people and is making such statements to gain cheap popularity only,” SP Spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury said.

Taking pot-shots at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Chowdhury said in his meetings only hundreds of people gather but party leader Akhilesh Yadav's presence generates crowd of thousands, who are supporting him whole heartedly.

Claiming that Congress was ruling at the Centre due to SP, Chowdhury said had his party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav not stopped communal forces in UP, they would have ruled the country now.