The ruling party has so far won six seats and the SP in three. Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav took a dig at the BJP today as his party’s victory in three seats in the election for Legislative Council led to the discomfiture of the BJP. The counting of votes for two seats is still on.
The SP’s victory in three seats, including one in Varanasi, has left the BJP red-faced. Asked about the matter, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said the Samajwadi Party has “opened its account where it was not expected” and the BJP will look into it.
Samajwadi Party candidate Mansingh Yadav won the In the Allahabad-Jhansi Graduates’ constituency, the Varanasi Teachers’ constituency was won by the party candidate Lal Bihari Yadav. The SP’s victory in three seats, including Varanasi, has left the BJP red-faced. In the Agra-Aligarh Teachers’ constituency, SP candidate Akash Agrawal defeated BJP nominee Hari Kishore Tiwari. The party faced a setback in Purvanchal -the loss of both seats in Varanasi (Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency) suggests growing anti-incumbency among the teacher electorate.
Despite winning six seats, the BJP’s margin of victory appears to have shrunk by 40 per cent – a warning sign ahead of the 2027 assembly elections.
Asked about the matter, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said the Samajwadi Party has “opened its account where it was not expected” and the BJP will look into it. What had sharpened the party’s embarrassment is that the SP had won the seats in a “franchise of very capable and educated people,” as Maurya put it. “The Bharatiya Janata Party has repeated its past performance; we were expecting to win even more seats, but we didn’t get that many,” he had said.
