Prashant Kishor meeting Mulayam was surprising: Sheila Dikshit

"It did look a little surprising. I don't know what made him go for the meeting," Dikshit told news agency when asked about the November 1 Kishor-Mulayam meeting which set tongues wagging. The former Delhi Chief Minister for 15 long years also said she was not in a position to say if Kishor went as a Congress emissary. Asked if the party was satisfied with his style of functioning, Dikshit said: "He is an advisor, a strategist. Whether we are happy with his work or not, only the Secretaries would know... I wouldn't know." She added: "A grand alliance is being spoken about, but I don't think anything concrete has yet been decided." The Kishor-Mulayam meeting, also attended by the Samajwadi Party supremo's confidant Amar Singh, triggered speculation that the Congress may be mulling the idea of a "grand alliance" to take on the BJP in Uttar Pradesh in next year's assembly elections -- a la Bihar. The Congress, the Janata Dal-United and the Rashtriya Janata Dal came together in Bihar and worsted a BJP-led alliance. In Bihar, however, the Samajwadi Party pulled out of the alliance at the eleventh hour, blaming the many seats given to the Congress.