BJP lost on many important seats in UP MLC elections, what are the signs before 2027?

State Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has given this reaction on the results of elections held on 11 seats of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council.

Maurya admitted that the Bharatiya Janata Party had hoped that it would win more seats than last time, but it did not happen. He said that the party will review the results and try to perform better in the 2027 assembly elections.

On the other hand, this slogan is also being discussed on social media quoting Samajwadi Party supporters - "Ayodhya, Varanasi, Prayagraj are glimpses, entire UP is left."

In fact, out of the 11 Legislative Council seats in Uttar Pradesh for which voting took place on October 23, BJP won six seats and Samajwadi Party won five.

BJP was ahead in terms of number of seats, but defeat in the graduate seat of Lucknow, SP's victory in the teacher seat of Agra and SP's capture of both the seats in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have made these results politically important.

Of the 11 seats in the Legislative Council, five were from graduate and six from teacher constituencies.

In the elections of these 11 seats in 2020, BJP had won six, Samajwadi Party three and independent candidates had won two seats. At the same time, this time the total seats of BJP remained only six, but SP increased from three to five seats.

Samajwadi Party has won Lucknow Graduate, Agra-Aligarh Teacher, Varanasi Graduate, Varanasi Teacher and Allahabad-Jhansi Graduate seats.

Whereas, BJP has named Lucknow Teacher, Agra Graduate, Meerut Graduate, Meerut Teacher, Bareilly-Moradabad Teacher and Gorakhpur-Faizabad Teacher seats.

Samajwadi Party has won both the seats of Varanasi, teacher and graduate. This victory is important because this is the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

In Varanasi teacher constituency, Lal Bihari Yadav of SP has defeated Dr. Pramod Mishra of BJP. Lal Bihari Yadav secured 11,612 votes and retained his hold on this seat.

Whereas, in Varanasi Block Graduate constituency, SP's Ashutosh Sinha has defeated BJP's Kedarnath Singh. Earlier this seat was also in SP's share.

In Agra-Aligarh teachers constituency, Samajwadi Party's Dr. Akash Aggarwal defeated BJP's Hari Kishore Tiwari by 4,263 votes. Akash Aggarwal got 14,046 votes, while the BJP candidate got 9,783 votes.

On the graduate constituency seat of Lucknow, Samajwadi Party's Kanti Singh defeated BJP's sitting MLC Avnish Kumar Singh by 17,127 votes. Kanti Singh got 56,905 votes, while Avnish Kumar Singh got 39,778 votes.

BJP's Dhruv Kumar Tripathi won in Gorakhpur-Faizabad teachers constituency, but independent candidate Rajiv Yadav gave him a tough competition. Dhruv Tripathi won by just 307 votes.

Senior journalist Anand Rai said that these results have given an edge to SP among the educated and teacher class, which will boost the morale of SP workers. At the same time, Pankaj Shah in Times of India has called it a 'litmus test' before the 2027 assembly elections.