BY LISA BRYAN - AT
"It was decided that the party will contest all elections even that of cooperatives", state BJP president Laxmi Kant Bajpai told reporters here.
As ballots cast in the four-phase polling were counted today, Opposition BSP emerged as the surprise front-runner in the elections with most of the candidates it supported, registering victory.
"The results are a clear signal that the people are favouring the development-oriented politics and governance of (Chief Minister) Akhilesh Yadav", party spokesman and cabinet minister Rajendra Chowdhary said.
Though several of the senior UP politicians of all the political parties have got success in helping their kins to win the elections, but on the other hand a few of them had to lick the dust.
Panchayat polls are not fought on party symbols but the contestants alwasy are always influenced or backed by a few political leaders.
Likewise, there is reason for alarm for the BJP as candidates supported by the party have been routed in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi. BJP claims to have won 535 and Congress 81 out of 1500-odd it had declared its candidates for while SP didn't official announce the list of candidates it was supporting.
The results assume significance as they have come just about a year before the assembly elections.
Om Mathur, BJP party in-charge has convened a meeting in Lucknow on November 3 to discuss the results.
Accusing the ruling SP of misusing government machinery, he said that a review of the results would be done for which report has been sought from every district.
A candidate supported by Asaduddin Owaisi's Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen or MIM, has won a seat in Azamgarh, the parliamentary constituency of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh -- touted as a semi-final ahead of the next assembly elections - have jolted both the Congress and the BJP. Notification for the pradhan polls would be issued on November 7.
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