Addressing Samajwadi Party's two-day National Executive, he said his party would play a major role at the Centre after 2014 elections in which it hopes to get "enough seats" and no government could be formed without it.
He said, "so who will take the responsibility of saving the country and take it in the right direction? The Samajwadi Party has to come forward and take this responsibility."
Yadav, who yesterday made surprise comments that his party is in the Opposition and criticised the UPA government as directionless, said "the situation has come to such a pass that the Congress is getting mired in controversies and scams.
"Every day a new scam unfolds. The reputation of the Congress has been tainted throughout the country due to the scams," he said.
Without naming any central minister, the SP supremo said, "newspapers today reported that ministers on the first day of taking charge allocated coal blocks to their relatives."
Explaining his party's responsibilities in "taking charge" at the Centre, he said SP "should get enough seats" in the Lok Sabha election so that no government can be formed without it.
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Later, his party spokesperson and senior leader Mohan Singh spoke of SP taking the initiative for forming a non-Congress, non-BJP Third Front and withdrawing support to UPA government when "other UPA constituent parties will start leaving it".
Congress reacted sharply to Yadav's attack on the government saying that he was on the dais at the UPA's third anniversary showing its report card proudly. Union Minister Kapil Sibal said the party hopes to rule the country for another 60 years like it did in the last 60 years. MORE