Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday refuted claims that her party and Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM will fight in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections together, and said that it will go solo in the state polls, due early next year.

Mayawati reasserted that her party had only announced an alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, but in UP and Uttarakhand, it will fight alone. The two parties have also finalised the seat-sharing agreement in the 117-member Assembly, with SAD contesting on 97 seats and the BSP on 20.

"This news has been broadcast in a media news channel since yesterday that the AIMIM and BSP will fight the upcoming assembly elections in UP together. This news is completely false, misleading and baseless. There is not even an iota of truth in this and the BSP vehemently denies it.

"In this regard, it is again clarified that except Punjab, the BSP will not contest the UP and Uttarakhand state polls early next year in alliance with any party; meaning it will go it alone," Mayawati tweeted on Sunday.

Earlier in an interview with ndtv.com, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had also ruled out making an alliance with BSP or the Congress during the upcoming polls. He also revealed that his party would go for like-minded smaller parties for alliance.

"My experience with big parties is not good, I will not get into any alliance with them," Akhilesh told ndtv.com, without naming Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Congress.