NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday called the BJP a “flop show” after the party’s defeat in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections. He also claimed the results set the stage for the 2027 UP assembly polls.In a post on X, Akhilesh credited teachers and young voters for the victory and alleged that the BJP had tampered with election results.“The BJP’s defeat in the Legislative Council elections has written the preface to the UP assembly elections to be held in 2027,” he said.Akhilesh also claimed that the BJP had lost in Varanasi during both the initial counting and the subsequent recounting. He described the outcome as a “double loss of the double engine”, referring to the BJP’s governments at the Centre and in the state.He alleged that the results reflected public anger against the BJP’s policies on teachers, students and education, as well as the concerns of unemployed graduates.“The BJP’s ticket window is empty,” Akhilesh said, claiming that the ruling party was struggling to find candidates for the 2027 Assembly elections. He further alleged that the BJP was facing an internal rift following its defeat in the council polls.Akhilesh also claimed that the PDA, or Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak (backward classes, Dalits and minorities) grouping, had expanded its support base.“The PDA’s mass base has now reached 95%, because ‘those who are victimized, they are PDA’!” he said.
Akhilesh alleges poll tampering
The SP chief alleged that the BJP had won some seats through electoral manipulation. He also praised party workers and supporters for monitoring the counting process alongside the party’s “PDA sentinels”.He congratulated the winning candidates and those who, he alleged, had been defeated through “deceit and fraud”.“In fact, none of our candidates has lost; they just couldn’t win in the face of BJP’s tampering. We equally honor them as well. For us, they are all winners even without certificates,” Akhilesh said.
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He thanked teachers and young voters for supporting the party and remaining vigilant until the winning candidates received their certificates.“This very vigilance and unity will become the ‘decisive foundation’ for forming our government in 2027,” he said.
SP congratulates winning MLC candidates
The Samajwadi Party also shared a list of its winning candidates in the graduate and teachers’ constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections.The candidates named in the post were Kanti Singh from the Lucknow graduate constituency, Lal Bihari Yadav from the Varanasi teachers’ constituency, Akash Agrawal from the Agra teachers’ constituency, Ashutosh Sinha from the Varanasi graduate constituency, and Man Singh Yadav from the Jhansi-Prayagraj graduate constituency.The party congratulated the candidates and described their victories as a morale boost ahead of the 2027 assembly elections.
