Ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections in UP, the SBSP had allied with the Samajwadi Party, but relations between the two parties soured after the results were announced in March last year.
Bypolls Results 2023 LIVE: The seven seats Ghosi in Uttar Pradesh, Bageshwar in Uttarakhand, Puthuppally in Kerala, Dhupguri in West Bengal, Dumri in Jharkhand, and Boxanagar and Dhanpur in Tripura went to poll on September 5
To turn east U.P. into an impregnable fort before the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the BJP tied up with SBSP led by Om Prakash Rajbhar, NISHAD party led by Sanjay Nishad and fielded Dara Singh Chauhan, who defected from the SP, to consolidate its hold over the Other Backward Class (OBC) voters