The fact that the BJP lost both the seats – Gorakhpur was vacated by Adityanath and Phulpur by his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya – is a reason for review.
Latest News : Less than a year after its spectacular victory in UP, the BJP has lost the key seats of Phulpur and Gorakhpur to the Samajwadi Party. Gorakhpur was won five times by Yogi Adityanath until he became Chief Minister last year. Phulpur was vacated by Keshav Prasad Maurya, who became his deputy.
The loss in the backyards of the two heavy hitters of the BJP — Yogi Adityanath and Keshav Prasad Maurya — can be a game-changing event in Indian politics with the state witnessing new political alignment in the form of SP-BSP alliance.
The Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-election results were a “lesson”, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today, citing over-confidence and the inability to understand the understanding between SP and BSP as prime reasons for the BJP’s defeat.
The fact that the BJP lost both the seats — Gorakhpur was vacated by Adityanath and Phulpur by his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya — was a reason for review, the chief minister added.
“When the candidates were declared, the SP, BSP and Congress were not together…they had not joined hands then. But suddenly in the middle of the election, the SP and the BSP forged an electoral understanding,” he told the media from his residence. “The over-confidence and inability to understand the electoral understanding between the SP and the BSP led to the defeat,” Adityanath stressed. Political bargaining has started in the state and people of the state will understand it, he said.
Here’s why BJP lost to SP-BSP in Uttar Pradesh 1. Yogi Adityanath, BJP’s overconfidence Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, whose hometown Gorakhpur went to the Samajwadi Party today in a staggering upset for the ruling BJP in bypolls, blamed “overconfidence” and conceded that his party underestimated the potency of an Akhilesh Yadav-Mayawati combo.
