Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh BJP today accepted its defeat in the bye-elections for 11 Assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha seat in the state and said it would review the reasons behind it.
“The responsibility of defeat is mine and my team. The reasons behind the defeat will be reviewed. It has given us a lesson for the Vidhan Sabha polls,” BJP state president Laxmi Kant Bajpai said.
Of the 11 seats won by the BJP in the last assembly elections, eight have been won by SP in the bye-elections.
The SP has won from Sirathu, Hamirpur, Bijnore and Charkhari assembly constituencies and had a comfortable lead of over two lakh votes in Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency from where Tej Pratap Singh, grand-nephew of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, is the party candidate.
