The Bahujan Samaj Party will go it alone in the October Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Delhi, party leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said on Saturday.

Asked whether her party was having talks with any other political party for electoral alliance or understanding for the general elections in 2004, she said it was too early to say. "We will chalk out our strategy only after the assembly polls in October," she said.

To a question whether the BSP would field a candidate against Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, a dalit, Mayawati said Shinde is not contesting the election as a dalit, but as a Congress candidate. She said the BSP will field a candidate against him, but not because he is a dalit.

"Our fight is not against particular religion or caste, but it is directed against Manuwadi Samaj [forward castes] and to change the system," she said.