Lucknow, May 11 :     The BJP leadership?s effort to throw a veil over the ugly face of its feuding Uttar Pradesh unit lay in shreds today with Kalraj Mishra, the second man in Kalyan Singh?s Cabinet, accusing the chief minister of putting him under watch. ?My house was under the surveillance of Uttar Pradesh police for a long time. The chief minister did his best to get the special task force to link me with Sri Prakash Shukla (the mafia don killed in an encounter six months ago). A fax was sent to the producers of the television programme India?s Most Wanted, asking them to come to Lucknow and see if Shukla?s car was parked at my residence,? Mishra said. Mishra said DIG (Lucknow range) Arun Gupta was sent to inspect his residence. Mishra said his security guards were questioned during his absence. They were asked if Shukla took shelter there regularly. ?When the guards said he did not, the police entered my home and searched the premises,? Mishra said. He said incidents like these had ?pained and hurt? him, but he had chosen to remain silent ?in the interests of the party?. Mishra added he had not brought to the notice of the party high command the police surveillance and Kalyan Singh?s reported instruction to the special task force to associate him with Shukla because he was ?exercising restraint?. Why, then, has the long-suffering Mishra suddenly come out in the open? ?I have been bracketed with the dissidents. The papers say that Lalji Tandon and I are the main dissidents. This is not true. The chief minister will not believe this, but I have been speaking to dissident MLAs and asked them to stop their activities for the sake of the party,? he said. Mishra has not just spoken out. He has also had a chat with Kalyan Singh about the police watching his residence. Mishra said the chief minister ? when told about the surveillance ? expressed surprise and said he would find out more about the matter. ?The chief minister later called to say that my facts were wrong and that he had ordered no surveillance. But I told him that my facts were one hundred per cent true. No police officer would search the residence of a senior Cabinet minister without the approval of the chief executive of the state,? Mishra said. The home department said there was never any ?official order? for surveillance. A senior official, then posted in the department, said: ?Nothing of this kind was brought to my notice.? Mishra said he had advised Kalyan Singh not to be ?vindictive? and refrain from ?bullying others? just because he had a difference of opinion with them. The tourism minister emphasised that he was not with the dissidents and had not joined the chorus demanding Kalyan Singh?s removal. ?It is not possible. I have suggested an honourable way out. Kalyan Singh should promise suraksha (security) and samman (respect) to all the MLAs. Those feeling threatened should be given additional security. District magistrates and senior officers should be told in writing to cooperate with these MLAs and ensure that their local grievances are sorted out,? Mishra said. Even though the charge levelled by him today is the most serious voiced so far against the chief minister, Mishra would like to portray himself as a ?bridge? between Kalyan Singh and the dissidents. ?I am pained at what has been done to me. But for the sake of the party, I will try my utmost to see that elections are fought unitedly. I am willing to help the chief minister but he should change his style of functioning and not treat me with suspicion,? Mishra said. Already under pressure from the high command to make peace with dissidents by offering concessions, Kalyan Singh will now find himself in an even weaker position. Ally demands 15 seats The Jantantrik Bahujan Samaj Party, a partner in the ruling coalition in Uttar Pradesh, today offered to contest the Lok Sabha polls in alliance with the BJP but demanded 15 seats.