Kalyan accompanied by only an ex-MP Ganga Charan Rajput and a MLC Kripal Singh, stepped up his tirade against Vajpayee today by sarcastically calling him the "highest command" in BJP and blaming the PM for his removal from Chief Minister's chair.

The former CM refuses to announce his future plan of action only asking people to wait for ripening of the mango (situation). He claims to have written an 11-stanza poem on the current political situation, which he would recite at an appropriate time. Kalyan claims he would also address three successive press conferences - one every day like Madan Lal Khurana - after reaching Lucknow tomorrow.

The BJP leadership too hit back swiftly. Kalyan's mentor so far, Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani debunked his allegations against Vajpayee.Party general secretary K N Govindacharya who is in-charge of BJP affairs in UP, too flayed the former CM for damaging party's image.

``We have taken cognizance of Kalyan Singh's actions and speeches. The party is discussing about its next step'', Govindacharya said. Advani refuted Singh's allegation that Vajpayee had decided to dislodge him from Chief Minister's chair by saying, ``it was a collective decision of BJP leadership of which I as well as party president Kushabhau Thakre were party''.

Singh today slightly altered his statement to pack more punch. He had alleged yesterday that he would not take any post either in the party or in the Government till Vajpayee was Prime Minister. He claimed today that he had been misquoted. He had actually said Vajpayee would not allow him to hold any post during his Prime Ministership, Kalyan claimed.

The former CM however, does not think that his outburst amounts to indiscipline. ``I am not a bonded labourer of the party. I have the right to put across my pointof view and feelings'', he told mediapersons today. But, he does not miss any opportunity to point out that Vajpayee got him removed because of BJP's electoral debacle in UP while rewarding his adversaries like Rajnath Singh, Lalji Tandon and Kalraj Mishra.

Kalyan stops just short of calling Vajpayee names. ``I know the limit and would never cross it'', he says asserting he was still a loyal BJP worker.

But he does betray a sense of hurt and a determination to fight back if pushed against the wall. ``My career started from the fields of my village. How far can they push me? Certainly not beyond boundary of my fields and I am prepared for that'', he says.

Kalyan was provoking the party to expel him on charges of indiscipline before launching his new outfit, a pro-backwards party, people close to him say. The former CM's primary aim was to embarrass the Prime Minister and secondary aim was to ensure BJP's decimation in the heartland through backwards consolidation.

With almost 52 per cent population inUP, backwards were so far divided between the BJP (Lodh, Kurmi, Kachhi, Kahar, etc), Samajwadi Party (Yadav, Nishad, etc) and Apna Dal (Kurmis). If Kalyan manages to enter into a broad understanding with SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and Apna Dal's Sone Lal Patel, he can definitely make a dent in BJP's vote bank.

``Babuji (Kalyan) like Sharad Pawar, may not win many seats on his own with the next Assembly elections in UP less than two years away, he will certainly ensure BJP's defeat'', said a Kalyan-loyalist.

As a prelude to this strategy, Samajwadi Party leader Sakshi Maharaj called on Singh this evening. Asked whether Singh would join his party, Sakshi shot back, ``Both Kalyan and Mulayam have equal stature. How can one of them work under the other?''. But, he did not rule out a broad understanding between the two leaders.

Significantly, Kalyan attended wedding reception of Mulayam's son here today. Given the two leaders never saw eye to eye, the event may trigger off a chain of politicaldevelopments.