New Delhi, July 26 :     Charting a fresh course for political realignments, the CPM has snapped its long-standing ties with Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh following his estrangement with the Congress and his alliance with its bete noire Sharad Pawar. ?We have nothing to do with the Samjwadi Party because it believes in equi-distance from the BJP and the Congress,? said CPM general secretary Harkishen Singh Surjeet at a press conference in Delhi today. He also ruled out any truck with Pawar and his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). The party?s Politburo and central committee which recently met here to hammer out a poll strategy decided against formal alliances and said they would support any candidate who has the best chance of defeating the BJP. This means the CPM will make a seat-to-seat assessment and back any winning candidate from the ?secular bloc? against communal parties. Surjeet conceded the non-Congress forces have not been able to project a third alternative. In a departure from its strategy in the last elections, the party has now trained its guns solely on the BJP. The line of equi-distance has been shunned and the CPM is laying down a path of supporting a Sonia Gandhi-led coalition after the polls. ?We do not have any confusion our main fight is against the BJP,? said Surjeet. After the last Lok Sabha elections, there were red faces in the party when Surjeet, without consulting his colleagues, declared the CPM would support a Congress-led government at the Centre. It was embarrassing as the CPM had for more than a month loudly announced its equi-distances from both the BJP and the Congress ? BJP because of its communalism, Congress because its economic liberalisation. To stymie a replay of the post-poll drama, the party this time is pursuing a flexible poll strategy so that it could be free to support a candidate from any secular party rather than get stuck with losing candidates of parties they have formal alliances with. Since the CPM is not having a tie-up with Mulayam in Uttar Pradesh, it could support even a Congress candidate if he or she has the best chance of defeating the BJP. The CPM?s alliances will vary not only state to state but also constituency to constituency. Spelling out the alliances, the Marxist leader said the CPM will have seat adjustments with Laloo Prasad Yadav?s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in Bihar, Harikrishna?s Anna Telugu Desam Party (ATDP), while it is still keeping its poll options open in Karnataka. In Andhra Pradesh, the CPI as well as Surjeet strongly rooted for an alliance with the Congress, but the CPM?s state unit refused. Surjeet denied all speculations about a tie-up with the Muslim League. In Tamil Nadu the CPM will go with the Congress or ADMK, but in Maharashtra, the Left will go it alone. Laloo is expected in Delhi tomorrow. Surjeet said a seat-sharing formula between the two is expected to be worked out.