Accusing the Congress of ditching them when their need was over, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday said the ruling party cannot align with both the BSP and SP and should make its stand clear.

"Whenever somebody has supported Congress, they have ditched them. They have a history of this," SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

Yadav went on to say that the SP has "tolerated" the Congress only because they believe in the principle of secularism.

He alleged the Congress is known to be friends with both sides like the DMK and the AIADMK, Left Front and the Trinamool and that they cannot do the same thing with SP and BSP.

The SP supremo also targeted the BJP, saying his party was forced to go with the Congress because of the "communal" attitude of the former.

"If you improve yourselves we will take back support," he said.