SP and BSP are fighting each other as they sense defeat, Modi tells Mirzapur rally

Prime Minister Narendra Modi told an election rally in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday that the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which are allies in the state for the Lok Sabha election, had begun quarrelling among themselves because they knew they were heading for defeat.

Attack on the SP-BSP alliance

Pointing to reported scuffles between workers of the two parties, Modi said the alliance’s leaders had struck their deals while sitting in air-conditioned rooms in Lucknow, and that this was why they had lost touch with the situation on the ground. Because the parties expected to lose, he said, their own workers had started grabbing each other by the collar.

Continuing his attack, the Prime Minister said the two parties had increased the daily dose of insults aimed at him. He alleged that people knew Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati to be corrupt, that they sat on heaps of money while calling themselves socialists, and that they had looted Uttar Pradesh by turns. He also accused the alliance of pushing the state towards naxalism.

Claim of more than 300 seats

Modi was confident about the BJP‘s chances and said the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would form the next government with more than 300 seats. According to him, people across the country trusted his government because it had worked hard on the problems that needed solving.

Polling schedule

Mirzapur and 12 other Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh were due to vote on May 19, in the seventh and final phase of the general election, with results to be declared on May 23.

What happened next

Votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha election were counted on 23 May 2019. The BJP won 303 of the 543 seats and the Congress 52, and Narendra Modi was sworn in for a second term as Prime Minister on 30 May 2019.

See also: Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party

Originally published on 16 May 2019. Rewritten on 9 October 2026.

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