Less than five months after BSP and SP buried over two decades of animosity to hammer out an alliance to defeat BJP, the muchhyped “permanent gathbandhan” has run into troubled waters with BSP chief Mayawati asking her cadre to “be prepared” to contest bypolls to 11 seats in the UP assembly, and triggering talk that it may be splitsville time soon.
The decision to contest bypolls on its own is crucial since BSP usually does not contest byelections and made an exception only in 2007 when it contested the Farrukhabad seat.
Less than five months after BSP and SP buried over two decades of animosity to hammer out an alliance to defeat BJP, the muchhyped “permanent gathbandhan” has run into troubled waters with BSP chief Mayawati asking her cadre to “be prepared” to contest bypolls to 11 seats in the UP assembly, and triggering talk that it may be splitsville time soon.
The decision to contest bypolls on its own is crucial since BSP usually does not contest byelections and made an exception only in 2007 when it contested the Farrukhabad seat.
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