<div><p>Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav, whose party gave a tough fight to the BJP, on Friday said that the results of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections had proved that the saffron party could be defeated.</p><p>''We have shown that the seats of the BJP can be reduced......this decrease (in BJP seats) will continue....we have already reached the halfway mark....the rest will be achieved in the days to come,'' Akhilesh said in a message on his Twitter handle.</p><p>The SP president thanked the people for increasing his party's seats by two and half times and its vote percentage by one and half times. The SP had won only 47 seats in the 2017 assembly polls and the party had secured 21 per cent votes. Its tally rose to 115 and its vote percentage increased to 32 per cent.</p><p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election/uttar-pradesh/up-polls-result-what-went-wrong-for-akhilesh-yadav-1090112.html" target="_blank">UP polls result: What went wrong for Akhilesh Yadav?</a></strong></p><p>He asked the party workers to continue to take up the issues concerning the common people. ''We will continue to oppose the anti-people policies of the BJP government....our battle will continue till we succeed,'' he added.</p><p>Akhilesh had allied with Jayant Chaudhary of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Om Prakash Rajbhar of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) in the state assembly polls.</p><p>Despite joining hands with the RLD, a predominantly Jat outfit, Akhilesh failed to dislodge the BJP from the state as his alliance did not do as expected in the jat dominated western UP region.</p><p>Sources in the SP said that Akhilesh, who was an MP from Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat, could opt to retain the Karhal assembly seat, which he had won in the assembly polls.</p><p>‘’Akhilesh as leader of the opposition will be in a better position to take on the BJP,’’ said a senior SP leader while speaking to DH on Friday.</p></div>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
<div><p>Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav, whose party gave a tough fight to the BJP, on Friday said that the results of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections had proved that the saffron party could be defeated.</p><p>''We have shown that the seats of the BJP can be reduced......this decrease (in BJP seats) will continue....we have already reached the halfway mark....the rest will be achieved in the days to come,'' Akhilesh said in a message on his Twitter handle.</p><p>The SP president thanked the people for increasing his party's seats by two and half times and its vote percentage by one and half times. The SP had won only 47 seats in the 2017 assembly polls and the party had secured 21 per cent votes. Its tally rose to 115 and its vote percentage increased to 32 per cent.</p><p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election/uttar-pradesh/up-polls-result-what-went-wrong-for-akhilesh-yadav-1090112.html" target="_blank">UP polls result: What went wrong for Akhilesh Yadav?</a></strong></p><p>He asked the party workers to continue to take up the issues concerning the common people. ''We will continue to oppose the anti-people policies of the BJP government....our battle will continue till we succeed,'' he added.</p><p>Akhilesh had allied with Jayant Chaudhary of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Om Prakash Rajbhar of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) in the state assembly polls.</p><p>Despite joining hands with the RLD, a predominantly Jat outfit, Akhilesh failed to dislodge the BJP from the state as his alliance did not do as expected in the jat dominated western UP region.</p><p>Sources in the SP said that Akhilesh, who was an MP from Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat, could opt to retain the Karhal assembly seat, which he had won in the assembly polls.</p><p>‘’Akhilesh as leader of the opposition will be in a better position to take on the BJP,’’ said a senior SP leader while speaking to DH on Friday.</p></div>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
