Akhilesh Meets Mayawati at Her Residence After Exit Polls Projections

Of the total 80, BSP had contested 38 seats and the SP fought on 37 seats. The Parties gave 3 seats to smaller RLD.

Published: May 20, 2019 2:55 PM IST

By India.com News Desk

Akhilesh Meets Mayawati at Her Residence After Exit Polls Projections

Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav met on Monday after exit poll projectected NDA’s victory in Lok Sabha elections 2019.

Yadav, who had formed a coalition with the BSP and the RLD to take on the BJP, drove to the residence of Mayawati. Details of what transpired between the two top leaders was not known at the time of filing the story.

Earlier on Sunday,  the exit polls showed the mahagatbandhan wresting several seats from the BJP in Uttar Pradesh where the saffron party had won 71 of the 80 seats. Some exit polls predicted that the SP-BSP alliance is likely to trump the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.

The C Voter-Republic forecast gave the grand alliance in UP 40 seats against 38 for the NDA, while the Jan Ki Baat said the NDA may win 46-57 seats against 15-29 of the SP-BSP combine.

ABP News predicted a huge loss for the BJP in the state, saying it may get only 22 seats while the opposition alliance may emerge victorious in 56 constituencies.

On Saturday, TDP president Chandrababu Naidu had met both Yadav and Mayawati in the UP capital separately to discuss possibility of non-BJP parties coming together in the event of a fractured verdict.

As part of the alliance agreement, the BSP had contested 38 seats and the SP 37 seats leaving 3 for a smaller RLD while deciding not to field any candidate in Rae Bareli and Amethi, the stronghold of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi respectively.

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