Smaller local parties have emerged strong in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls this time, bolstering the BJP and the SP, and leaving behind the Congress and the BSP. The BJP's ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) won 12 of the 17 seats it had contested and emerged as the third largest party after the BJP and the SP. In Mauranipur, Apna Dal (Sonelal) candidate Rashmi Arya won by 58,595 votes.
After the popularity of the bulldozer in the Uttar Pradesh elections, it has turned into the most happening thing. While Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been named as 'Bulldozer Baba' after he extensively used the machine to demolish the properties of criminal and mafia, the youth are trying to immortalise its memory by getting a tattoo on their arms. Tattoo artists in
The allegation in the UP elections that AIMIM led by Asaduddin Owaisi, was actually a 'B' team of the Bhartiya Janata Party is not entire baseless if one takes a look at election results. On several seats Owaisi's candidate have taken away votes that, if added to the SP-RLD combine, would have ensured the defeat of the BJP. In UP, the BJP won 7 seats by 200 votes, 23 seats by
BSP, along with Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) were able to severally damage the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the UP elections. The parties failed to make an impact otherwise, with BSP securing just one seat, while AIMIM failed to open its account in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.
Despite the BJP's historic victory in Uttar Pradesh, the drubbing faced by 11 ministers of the Yogi Adityanath government, including Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Maurya, who was credited with the party's win in 2017, and Sugarcane Minister Suresh Rana, has raised many questions within the party.