Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party after Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s remark on the MLC election results, claiming the latter was “secretly happy about the PDA’s victory.
Maurya had on Wednesday said the BJP had not won as many seats as it had expected, adding that SP had registered victory on seats that “it should not have.”
The BJP won six seats overall in the elections to 11 UP Legislative Council graduate and teachers’ constituency seats, while the Samajwadi Party secured five seats in the results announced on Wednesday. as highlighted by Maurya, the UP deputy CM conceded that the BJP had hoped to win more seats While the party’s tally was the same as in the 2020 Legislative Council election. The results for the MLC polls come months before the UP Assembly elections in 2027.
UP deputy CM and BJP leader Maurya, speaking to reporters after the MLC election results were announced Wednesday, said, “We were expecting to win even more seats but we did not win those many. The SP won where it should not have. The BJP suffered a setback in its strongholds of Varanasi, Lucknow, Jhansi, and the Agra region. We will look into this.
He further said the party would “introspect” and “make efforts” to ensure that it improves its performance in the upcoming elections. The SP chief also mocked BJP’s Gorakhpur seat win, claiming that the party had faced a “moral defeat” in the region and that the victory was the result of a “double-cross. “If the scheming BJP folks hadn’t pulled that double-cross in Gorakhpur, the same fate as in Banaras would have befallen them there too,” the Lok Sabha MP claimed in a post on X. He added that the MLC elections had “packed up the BJP’s bags and baggage”, accusing the party of “extreme dishonesty and administrative tampering. Yadav claimed that these would not “avert BJP’s downfall”, while warning, “All those corrupt officials who served the BJP will be hauled before the people’s court once the PDA government takes power.”
