Latest reports suggest, the Indian National Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) are in talks to form an alliance for the upcoming Haryana Legislative Assembly election.

Speculations are rife after newly appointed leader of the Congress Legislature Party Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Haryana Congress chief Kumari Selja reportedly met Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati in Lucknow, recently.

The move comes days after Mayawati, unhappy with the seat-sharing formula, called off the agreement with Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janata Party. Taking to Twitter, she had then said the party had decided to go it alone with all its strength and contest on all the seats.

Denying reports of any meeting, Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said there was no question of joining hands with the BSP and the Congress would go it alone in the polls.

After governing the state for two consecutive terms under chief minister Bhupinder Hooda, Congress faced an embarrassing defeat in the 2014 Assembly polls. The party finished third, amid a continued ‘Narendra Modi fever’. The Congress had even failed to secure the Leader of Opposition’s post.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited the state and sounded the poll bugle, praising the Manohar Lal Khattar-led government for fighting corruption and nepotism.

On the other hand, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has expressed confidence that the BJP will cross the 75-mark in the upcoming assembly polls in the state.

“Still lot of work needs to be done in Haryana,” he said, adding that if voted to power again, the BJP would strive to solve problems of the poor and farmers besides addressing the issue of water crisis.

Assembly polls in Haryana are slated for October. There are 90 seats in the state and the BJP currently has 48 MLAs in the assembly.