SP-BSP-RLD alliance fails to ‘caste’ its spell

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SP-BSP-RLD alliance fails to ‘caste’ its spell

Friday, 24 May 2019 | PNS | Lucknow

The BJP trounced the caste-based alliance of SP-BSP-RLD in Uttar Pradesh, and along with its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal), bagged two-thirds of 80 Lok Sabha seats with Prime Minister Narendra Modi winning Varanasi constituency by more than 4.5 lakh votes.

Although the SP-BSP-RLD alliance did not perform as expected, the BSP turned out to be the major gainer with 10 seats, while the SP could manage only 5 seats, less than 2 it won in 2014. However, the BSP had drawn a blank in the last Lok Sabha elections.

The Congress was in for its biggest setback as party chief Rahul Gandhi lost to BJP’s Smriti Irani by over 50,000 votes. However, Congress bagged sole seat Rae Bareli of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

It was mixed fortune for the Yadav clan of the SP. Top SP leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav won Mainpuri with 95,000 margin, and Akhilesh Yadav won by 2.5 lakh votes in Azamgarh. But his cousins and sitting MPs Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav lost Budaun and Firozabad seats.

While trailing for long, RLD chief Ajit Singh’s son and party vice-president Jayant Chaudhary lost in Baghpat.

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