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Blog: In Uttar Pradesh, BJP Gets A Black Eye Blog: In Uttar Pradesh, BJP Gets A Black Eye Updated: May 05, 2021 4:16 pm IST Should the BJP begin to panic now on account of the panchayat election results in Uttar Pradesh? Has the Covid bug finally bitten the voters in India s most-populous state, a state that accounts for 80 Lok Sabha seats and will vote for its next government 10 months from now? Or are opposition parties and their supporters clutching at straws? The seeming defeat of the BJP in these elections has been described by some in the party as a problem of many rebels in the fray who will return to the mothership. For those who are headlining this result, is too much being made of basically rural elections where many local issues, personalities and unorthodox techniques of vote-getting determine the winner? ....