The guest house incident related to Mayawati had changed political equations in Uttar Pradesh and SP and BSP became sworn enemies till 2019 when Akhilesh Yadav struck an alliance with Mayawati, who later clarified that Akhilesh Yadav was not in politics when the 1995 incident had taken place.
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Monday completely broke ties with Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party and announced to contest all elections alone.
In the elections, the BSP won 67 seats while Congress got 33. The alliance snapped a few months later when Mayawati formed a government with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In the aftermath of the Lok Sabha elections, the grand alliance stitched by the Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) is likely to break up.
The Samajwadi Party came off worse than its coalition partner BSP as the caste arithmetic by the “gathbandhan” in Uttar Pradesh failed before a BJP wave in the Lok Sabha elections.
Mayawati, who has always been at loggerheads with Samajwadi Party, this time had put everything on stake and had joined hands with her arch rival.
SP-BSP have forged an alliance in Uttar Pradesh. PM Modi, in his rally in Etah, said that the friendship is 'farzi' (fake).
The BSP has alleged that they had received reports of Dalits being prevented from reaching polling booths in "various" places in the state.
Apart from senior CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjan who will fight in Ghosi Lok Sabha seat, the party has fielded candidates in Robertsganj, Khiri, Banda, Bareilly, Ballia, Shahjahanpur, Lalganj and Gorakhpur.
Burying her 25-year-old bitter feud with Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati will seek support for him at an election rally in Mainpuri on April 19, SP spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said on Friday.
The incident Uma Bharti referred to happened in 1995, when SP MLAs and workers reportedly threatened Mayawati with physical assault. She was saved after BJP MLA Brahm Dutt Dwivedi stepped in.
The Rashtriya Lok Dal will contest three Lok Sabha seats as part of an alliance with the SP and the BSP, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Tuesday.
Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said that if the Congress should support the SP-BSP alliance to fight against the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls.
If Congress was to be a part of SP, BSP alliance, the BJP's numbers will be squeezed even further to 23 of 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Speaking to PTI, the RJD leader said that since Congress is India’s oldest and currently the second-biggest political party having a pan-India presence, it is in a very strong position to win maximum number of seats among the opposition parties.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said the coming together of the SP and the BSP has led to a wave of happiness in the country and left a worried BJP to hold meeting after meeting to devise a strategy to win even one seat in Uttar Pradesh.
"Congress, SP and BSP all work together. All these parties are scared of Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” said the deputy chief minister.
Jayant Chaudhary today met Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow to discuss seat-sharing arrangement for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav later visited the BSP chief and presented her with a bouquet and a shawl on her birthday.
The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party on Saturday announced their coalition in Uttar Pradesh for upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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