A day after the BJP’s historic record-breaking victory in Uttar Pradesh, prime challenger Akhilesh Yadav, the chief of the Samajwadi, acknowledged voters’ support and claimed that they had demonstrated that the BJP’s number of seats could be reduced.
On Twitter this morning, Mr. Yadav declared his gratitude to the citizens from the State for two and a half fold increase in the seats and a one-and-a-half-fold increase in their voting share.
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“We have shown that the BJP’s seat count can be decreased. This decline would continue. More than half of the falsehoods have been wiped out; the rest will follow. The struggle in the public interest would continue,” the president said in his first reaction to the public after the results were announced yesterday.
It is reported that the BJP, along with its co-conspirators, took an overall total of 273 from the total of 403 seats within this politically significant state.
This is a decrease by 49 votes from the total of the party during the elections of 2017, in which it was sacked from the Samajwadi Party government.
Its Akhilesh Yadav-led party has won 11 seats by itself, while the alliance backed by it could win 125 constituencies.
It was an increase of 73 over its performance in the election of 2017.
It was also the Samajwadi party’s most impressive performance to date.
The months leading up to the high-voltage elections saw Mr. Yadav traverse all the lengths and widths of the country’s largest state to engage with voters and solicit their votes.
The last time, he did not form any alliances with either the Congress similar to the election of 2017 or with the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party, as in the 2019 elections -both associations had experienced very little electoral success.
According to the results, it was clear that the Samajwadi Party could gain a significant portion of anti-BJP votes; however, it could not get even close to the BJP’s vast mandate.
As for the percentage of votes, In terms of vote share, the Samajwadi Party managed to get 32 percent of the votes, compared to the BJP’s 41 percent.
