NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Monday said that “elections are not won on the strength of the government” but by the party.
Reflecting on the 2024 Lok Sabha election results in which the alliance of Samajwadi Party and Congress outdid the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Maurya said, “This time (in Lok Sabha elections) we might have missed but next time we will come back stronger …The hard work we should have done, we missed because we were caught up in overconfidence.”
“But we should always keep in mind that elections are not won on the strength of the government, it is the party that contests the elections and it is the party that wins the elections,” he said.
The deputy CM also attacked Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party and accused it of misleading people in order to win election.
Reflecting on the 2024 Lok Sabha election results in which the alliance of Samajwadi Party and Congress outdid the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Maurya said, “This time (in Lok Sabha elections) we might have missed but next time we will come back stronger …The hard work we should have done, we missed because we were caught up in overconfidence.”
“But we should always keep in mind that elections are not won on the strength of the government, it is the party that contests the elections and it is the party that wins the elections,” he said.
The deputy CM also attacked Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party and accused it of misleading people in order to win election.
“BJP is the present and the future. It s the only party which gives priority to ‘sabka saath, sabka vikas’ … Would we have won if the Samajwadi Party had given the rights to backward classes?” he asked.
Maurya was speaking at an event in Lucknow.
In 2024Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance recorded remarkable turnaround in Uttar Pradesh where they won 43 of the 80 seats.
Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party emerged as the single-largest party in Uttar Pradesh, winning 37 seats, up from the five it won in 2019.
The ruling BJP’s tally was reduced to 33 seats from the 62 it won in the 2019 polls.