New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) A day after the nightmare of dismissal blew over the head of the Mulayam Singh Yadav government of Uttar Pradesh following announcement of the election schedule for the state assembly, the Samajwadi Party Thursday found itself in a flurry of activities to thwart possibilities of dissolution of the state assembly months ahead of its full term on May 14.

Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh rushed to the Rashtrapati Bhawan to plead to President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to "thwart any such unconstitutional move by the congress-ruled Central gvernment."

Singh alleged that after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule for the state assembly elections, the Congress is resorting to a new ploy of dissolving the state assembly on the pretext that its five-year-term expires on Feb 26, 2007 as it was constituted on Feb 25, 2002.

Quoting the provisions of the article 172 of the constitution, Singh, however, contended that the term of the house is counted from the day it holds its first sitting and not from the day it is constituted.

After the 2002 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Centre had imposed President's Rule in the state and the newly-constituted assembly had been placed under suspended animation as the elections threw a hung house.

The state assembly, however was revived later after Bahratiya janata party and the Bahujan Samaj Party decided to form a coalition government. The first sitting of the state assembly was subsequently held on May 15, 2005.

It is because of this reason that Election Commission too has slated in a poll schedule in such a way that the new state assembly is formed by May 14, 2007. Quoting the provisions of the constitution, the commission too had been maintaining that the term of the Uttar Pradesh assembly expires on May 14 and the new house would be in place by then.

Singh said before announcement of the poll schedule by the Election Commission, the Congress-ruled centre was contemplating invoking article 356 to dismiss the democratically-elected Mulayam Singh government.

But after announcement of the poll schedule, "the cunning Congress, being unable to resort to the article 356 due to pressure from the Left-democratic forces, is resorting to an easier route to dissolve the democratically-elected assembly even before it completed its term", said Singh.