Plummeting to its lowest ever tally of winning only one seat in the current Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Mayawati said it was the media’s aggressive propaganda showing the BSP as the "B team of the BJP" that drove away Muslims and anti-BJP voters from it.
The 'none of the above' (or NOTA) option on electronic voting machine (EVM) was introduced in India in 2013.
Owaisi, whose party drew a blank in the UP polls, has said the AIMIM respects the people's verdict in the northern state and continues to make efforts to win people's confidence in the future.
The BSP, that contested on 403 seats of Uttar Pradesh Assembly, won Rasara seat. BSP candidate Umashankar Singh defeated Mahendra of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party by a margin of over 6,500 votes.
“In the great festival of democracy, the decision of the people is paramount. The farmers' movement showed its effect. We hope that all the governments that have been formed will work for to uplift farmers and labourers in their respective states. Congratulations to all on the victory,” Tikait tweeted in Hindi.
The BJP's mega win in Uttar Pradesh gives its presidential candidate an edge. Had the UP results gone in favour of the Samajwadi Party, the BJP would have had to rely on the support of parties like BJD, TRS, YSR Congress Party.
The BSP and the Congress managed one and two seats respectively. The vote share of the Asaddudin Owaisi-led party was just around 0.43 per cent of the total votes polled.
"UP election results are opposed to BSP's expectations. We should not be discouraged by it. Instead, we should learn from it, introspect and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power," Mayawati said.
The Samajwadi Party, however, managed to perform way better than 2017, and gained 111 seats this time, more than double what it did five years back. Its vote share increased by more than 10% this time.
Despite giving a tough fight to BJP and improving its seat share in the Vidhan Sabha elections this year, SP failed to form a government for the second consecutive term in UP.
Bahraich voted in the fifth phase of assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, on February 27, 2022.
The Apna Dal contested 17 seats in Uttar Pradesh, and as per the latest data issued by the Election Commission, it won 12 of them.
In the 2017 Assembly election, Girish Chandra Yadav of BJP won the seat by defeating Congress's Nadeem Javed with a margin of 36,163 votes.
In 2017, Sakendra Pratap Verma of Bharatiya Janata Party won the seat by defeating Fareed Mahfooz Kidwai from Samajwadi Party with a margin of 28679 votes.
Ayodhya voted in the fifth phase of assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, on February 27, 2022.
BJP seems to have had a stronghold in Maharajganj for the last five years. Jaimangal Kanojiya is a popular face in the assembly constituency, as he defeated BSP's Nirmesh Mangal by a good margin back in 2017.
Colonelganj voted in the fifth phase of assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, on February 27, 2022.
Deoria went to polls during the sixth phase of assembly elections on March 3, 2022.
Kushinagar Assembly constituency falls under the Kushi Nagar Lok sabha constituency. Kushinagar went to polls during the sixth phase of assembly elections on March 3, 2022.
Badlapur went to polls during the seventh phase of voting in UP, on March 7, 2022.
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