BSP president Mayawati on Thursday said her party will form the government in the state and send Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath “back to his mutt”, alleging that he worked with a narrow and casteist mindset, and ignored Dalits, backwards and Muslims at every level. She also slammed a section of the media and accused it of bringing out exit polls in favour of the BJP and other
The SP has been trying to capitalise on a supposed 'anti-Brahmin' sentiment of the BJP by trying to draw a section of Eastern UP's Brahmin voters to its side.
The bipolarity has effectively divided a majority of the electorate into two camps – those who want to see Adityanath in the chief ministerial chair once again, and those who want him to show the door.
While Gorakhpur is often portrayed as a ‘pro-Yogi saffron stronghold’, various fault lines have existed in Adityanath’s supposed bastion for a long time.