"SP, Congress confused public in Uttar Pradesh...": OP Rajbhar on LS Poll results
Jun 05, 2024
New Delhi [India], June 5 : As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slipped to 33 seats from 63 in 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) Chief and state cabinet mninister Om Prakash Rajbhar claimed that the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress "confused" the public by stating that the constitution is in "danger".
"The SP and the Congress confused the public by repeatedly saying that the constitution is in danger. By making this an issue, they ate up the vote share of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) too, due to which we had to suffer losses in the state", Rajbhar said while speaking to ANI.
In a major setback to the BJP, it gained only 33 seats against 63 in the 2019 LS polls, with the vote share being 41.37%. Some of the most-watched seats which the BJP lost include -- Faizabad, Amethi, and Raebareli.
The Samajwadi Party, on the other hand, secured 37 seats by itself, thus witnessing a massive improvement in the state. The vote share of the SP stood at 33.59%.
Meanwhile, Rajbhar also spoke on the meeting on the NDA bloc which is scheduled to be held at 3:30 p.m today in Delhi.
He said that he was not informed about the meeting.
"I was not informed about the meeting. Therefore, I am not going to attend that", said tha SBSP Chief.
The BJP victory tally was much lower than its 2019 tally of 303 and the 282 seats it had won in 2014. The Congress, on the other hand, registered a strong growth, winning 99 seats compared to 52 that it had won in 2019 and 44 seats in 2014.
The INDIA bloc crossed the 230 mark, posing stiff competition, and defying all predictions from exit polls.
The meeting of the NDA bloc is scheduled to be held today at the Prime Minister's residence at 3:30 pm. to discuss the government formation, while, a meeting of the INDIA bloc is also scheduled at the residence of Congress Chief Mallikarjun Kharge.
Having witnessed favourable outcomes, the allies of the INDIA bloc will chalk out their next strategy.
