What went wrong, Mulayam asks unsuccessful SP candidates

Yadav, who was nursing the ambition of a big role at the Centre before the polls, is likely to sack some ministers and include new faces in the Akhilesh cabinet and overhaul the party organisation, but he did not signal his future course of action.

The ruling party in the state was reduced to five seats in the polls, with BJP and its ally Apna Dal bagging 73 and
Congress just two seats.

Among the five seats, Yadav himself won from two seats—Mainpuri and Azamgarh. The other three are Kannauj, Badaun and Firozabad clinched by his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav and nephews Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav respectively.

In a face saving statement, the party said its position was better than other parties like Congress and BSP and claimed that there was only a slight dent in its vote share.

“SP got 22.26 per cent votes, while in 2009 it got 23.26 per cent votes,” party spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury had said.