BJP Won’t Even Get 17 Seats in UP, Congress Will Win 7-8: Mamata

“The Congress will get seven to eight seats, Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav will do very well,” Mamata Banerjee said.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday told NDTV's Prannoy Roy that the BJP is losing in Uttar Pradesh and would not even get 17 of the state's 80 seats.

"We are confident, BJP is losing. In UP, I can predict that they may not get even 17 seats. The Congress will get seven to eight seats, Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav will do very well," the Chief Minister said, NDTV reported.

In 2014, the BJP had won 70 seats in UP and its ally Apna Dal had won two seats in the state, helping the party win an effortless majority in the Lok Sabha. This had happened for the first time in nearly three decades for any single party, the report said.