Assembly election results 2017: Politics of negativity has punctured Akhilesh's cycle, says Yogi Adityanath

Saffron is now all one sees in the eastern Uttar Pradesh (UP) constituencies, which were formerly a bastion of the Samajwadi Party (SP). The BJP owes much to its strongman Yogi Adityanath's mass connect in UP, for its victory here. 

 

"This is a big achievement for us after the 2014 elections. 2017 UP election was like a challenge in front of us. It was crucial as it came up as a chance to get rid of 15 year long misgovernance of SP and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)," says Adityanath in an exclusive interview with India Today.

 

 Commenting on the public mandate,he said, "The politics of negativity played by the SP-Congress alliance has punctured the tyre of Akhilesh's cycle"

 

 The BJP MP from Gorakhpur is being considered as the chief architect for creating a Modi-wave in UP.