Mayawati splits with SP, says Akhilesh failed to get even Yadav votes

After the brutal rout in Uttar Pradesh, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati announced that the BSP-SP mahagathbandhan will not be contesting the upcoming by-elections as an alliance.

Speaking to the media on Tuesday, "Looking at how the situation in the state is right now, it will be better for us to contest the upcoming by-elections on our own."

Mayawati said, "In the results of Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, the base vote of Samajwadi Party, the Yadav community, didn't support the party. Even strong contenders of SP were defeated. Even Dimple Yadav couldn't win the Kannauj seat."