Samajwadi Pary wins 8 seats in UP legislative council polls

In Uttar Pradesh, all eight candidates of the Samajwadi Party (SP) were declared elected in the polls for the 13 legislative council seats held yesterday. While expelled SP MLA from Sitapur Rampal Yadav voted against the party whip, sitting SP MLA Guddu Pandit and his brother Mukesh Pandit came to cast their vote with BJP MLA Sangeet Som, leaving little room for speculations over their aligning with the BJP.​

The senior SP leader Shivpal Yadav​ ​said ​that ​action will be initiated against all the party MLAs who voted against



the whip.​ ​The Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party registered its first major psychological win on Friday when all its three nominees for the legislative council got elected in the keenly contested polls.​ It was also an easy sail for Congress as its lone candidate won easily. It was very much evident in this election that managers of SP, BSP and Congress could be able to keep their flocks together. Whereas the BJP's performance​ ​could be a cause of concern for the party ​as one of its two candidates lost the elections.