Confirming that he had a dialogue with Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Gurcharan Singh Tohra yesterday at a guest house at Chandigarh, Kanshi Ram said ``let the Akalis first part company with the BJP, an alliance with the BSP will follow.''

Talking to news persons here on Monday, Kanshi Ram said Tohra during the 30-minute meeting briefed him how Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has become so thick with the BJP that he ignored interests of people of the state.

Kanshi Ram said relations between the two top Akali Dal leaders are expected to worsen after the introduction in Parliament the Bill to create Uttaranchal state. The Bill which has already been circulated has envisaged inclusion of Udham Singh Nagar to the proposed hill state of Uttaranchal.The Akalis have said publicly that they would opppose inclusion of Udham Singh Nagar in the proposed state.

The BSP leader said Tohra expressed his desire to have a tie-up with his party . ``I had told him that this would be possible after the Akali Dal snaps its relations with the BJP'', the BSP leader said. He also had talks with leaders of other splinter groups of Akali Dal yesterday.

Akali Dal and the BSP jointly contested the elections in May 1996 parliamentary polls and swept the polls winning twelve out of the thirteen Lok Sabha seats from Punjab. The relations between the two parties broke when Akali Dal chose to go with the BJP in the assembly elections that followed.

Meanwhile, the BJP, a constituent of the Badal Government in Punjab, today said it would demand more berths in the ministry in its proposed expansion.

``If Badal intends to induct new members in his ministry, the BJP will certainly demand its share,'' state parliamentary affairs minister and BJP leader Madan Mohan Mittal toldreporters here.

Ruling out any mediation by BJP to resolve the factional feud in the ruling Akali Dal, he said ``we wish the differences between the chief minister and the SGPC chief Tohra are resolved amicably.'' "We are a coalition partner of Akali Dal in Punjab and as a matter of policy, we will not interfere in their internal matters,'' Mittal said.