Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has called Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) announcement of understanding with Samajwadi Party to defeat BJP in Gorakhpur bypolls as the “coming together of snake and mongoose”, NDTV reported on Monday, 5 March.
A minister in Adityanath’s cabinet, Srikanth Sharma had earlier called this an ‘act of desperation by those discarded by people.’
Senior Congress senior Dalit leade PL Punia criticized the the alliance stating that “every influential member of the Dalit community was questioning it”.
The by-elections for the Gorakhpur seat vacated by CM Yogi Adityanath when he took over as the chief minster will be held on Sunday, 11 March.