Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati have called a joint press conference tomorrow at noon in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow for what is widely believed to be an announcement of their alliance for the national election due by May. Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have been in talks for weeks and last week, their meeting in Delhi raised a lot of talk over reports that the two had decided on a "mahagatbandhan" or grand coalition leaving the Congress out of the equation.