The CM blamed an exhibition of sheer overconfidence and failure to understand the support provided by the BSP to SP candidates as the core causes for the disaster that was spelt in the Lok Sabha elections
It was just yesterday that the BJP lost heavily in the Phulpur and Gorakhpur by-polls, and today UP Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath decided to call all his engagements off and called in for a meeting with his officials instead.
Yogi in the past has been winning the elections from the city of Gorakhpur for five consecutive terms except for this year, he vacated his seat so as to advance towards the UP Legislative Assembly. As a matter of fact, the same path was taken by Keshav Prasad Maurya, the Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh who came out to be the first BJP leader to taste victory from the seat during the assembly elections of the year 2017.
As per the reports, Yogi was supposed to partake in Lok Kala Mahotsav in the district of Gonda and inaugurate Nanaji Deshmukh’s statue who was an RSS veteran and former Rajya Sabha MP.
As per the sources of a daily, Yogi would also conduct interactions with party workers along with the leaders for discussing the Rajya Sabha polls. The CM blamed an exhibition of sheer overconfidence and failure to understand the support provided by the BSP to SP candidates as the core causes for the disaster that was spelt in the Lok Sabha elections.
He said, “When the candidates were declared, the Congress, SP, and BSP were not together… they had not collaborated then. But suddenly in their process of forming strategies for the election, the SP and BSP counterfeited an electoral understanding.”
It is crucial to note that BJP’s Kashlendra Singh was given a heavy defeat by SP’s Nagendra Patel by 59,000 votes. Whereas in Gorakhpur, BJP’s Upendra Dutt Shukla was defeated by Pravin Nishad of SP by 21,961 votes.
Conceding the defeat in the Loksabha bypolls, Yogi called the SP-BSP alliance a “selfish deal” that would do nothing else but hampering the country’s development. He has although refuted that the outcome was a mandate against the Modi government at the centre, claiming that the bypolls were fought only on provincial issues.
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