SP-BSP setback to BJP: How Akhilesh knitted an alliance and wove in caste

With the Samajwadi Party (SP) winning the Lok Sabha bypolls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur, the Mayawati-Akhilesh Yadav combine has got a solid start ahead of the big 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday conceded defeat to the Samajwadi Party in parliamentary bypolls held in Gorakhpur and Phulpur, one of which he represented five consecutive times in the Lok Sabha, and said that the BJP had underestimated the SP-BSP alliance.