Lucknow, April 20 -- Nearly a quarter century after their bitter fallout, Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday came together in Mainpuri to share the dais from where the BSP chief campaigned for the SP patriarch hailing him as a real leader of the backwards and not being a "fake leader like Prime Minister Narendra Modi."

The BSP-SP alliance, having a formidable political arithmetic in the State, also achieved a strong political traction as the two bitter rivals ended their over-two-decade-long animosity .

Mayawati waxed eloquence for Mulayam terming him a "real and born leader of the other backward classes" unlike Prime Minister Narendra Modi whom she dubbed a "farzi OBC". Besides praising each other profusely, the two arch-rivals...