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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath today said that the bypolls results were a “lesson” for his party. Yogi was a five time MP from Gorakhpur before vacating the seat in 2017 after being appointed UP CM.
The fact that the BJP lost both the seats — Gorakhpur was vacated by Adityanath and Phulpur by his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya — was a reason for review, the chief minister added.
“When the candidates were declared, the SP, BSP and Congress were not together…they had not joined hands then. But suddenly in the middle of the election, the SP and the BSP forged an electoral understanding,” the chief minister told the media from his residence.
“The over-confidence and inability to understand the electoral understanding between the SP and the BSP led to the defeat,” Yogi Adityanath said.