Hyderabad: Mayawati’s masterstroke in UP bypoll spoils the party in saffron baston. Bharatiya Janata Party loses the two key parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh – Gorakhpur and Phulpur – which were vacated by hardline Hindutva leader and Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya after their entry into the Assembly in April, 2017.
The Samajwadi Party powered by Bahujan Samaj Party handed BJP a crushing defeat in Gorakhpur by 21916 votes and Phulpur Lok Sabha bypoll seat where Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel registered a resounding win over BJP’s Kaushlendra Singh Patel by a margin of 59,613 votes.
The bypoll results have proved that Mayawati remains a big force in Uttar Pradesh and her ability to transfer votes in favour of an ally can’t be questioned.
When Mayawati can bury 25-year-old ghost of rivalry with SP, it is the right time for all the opposition parties including BSP, SP, Congress and Ajit Singh’s Apna Dal to leave their egos apart and come on one platform to take on the saffron surge.
