Mayawati alleges fraud, says BJP tampered EVMs to win UP elections

“The poll panel has said that it has made repeated visit to Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and met the representatives of all parties, including your party”. The poll body also quoted court orders endorsing EVMs and said Mayawati’s demand for probe is legally not tenable.

“These exit polls are nonsensical”. Demonetisation has worked and we are proud of Modi’s leadership.

Mukhtar Ansari of BSP leads in Mau, Uttar Pradesh.

Akhilesh Yadav told the BBC Hindi that he was confident of the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance winning the staggered assembly election. “We accept the verdict and wish all the best to the upcoming government in the state”, said the young leader.

The Congress, which did not have much to offer apart from helping the SP consolidate the minority vote, too depended on Akhilesh’s charisma to revive its political fortunes.

Soon after the BJP’s landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh, where it romped home with three-fourths of the 403 seats, the BSP supremo Mayawati dismissed the poll outcome and called for a fresh election.

The realisation that only a coming together of anti-BJP forces can now stop the Modi wave and ensure their survival was clear to both losing parties hours after counting of votes began today. “It is very hard to accept them”, said Mayawati.

So why didn’t the high-decibel, power-packed alliance with Congress work? SP, Congress on 13. The results, however, proved otherwise.

SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav largely stayed away from campaign.

Even in Amethi, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabha seat, the BJP’s Garima Singh had forged ahead.

In a press conference on Saturday evening, Akhilesh addressed a press conference, where he graciously accepted defeat.