Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today led a review meeting over the party’s performance in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. The BSP which formed a full majority government in Uttar Pradesh in 2007 managed to win just one seat this time. During the course of the meeting, the party president dissolved all units of the party except the posts of state president, assembly speaker and district president.

According to reports, the party also named Guddu Jamali as its candidate for the Azamgarh bypolls – necessitated by Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav’s resignation from the parliamentary constituency.

The meeting at the party office in Lucknow was attended by several hundred BSP leaders and office bearers. “The meeting is called upon to discuss the performance of the party in 2022 Assembly elections. In the previous elections in 2017 too, though we attained a lesser number of seats, we had 1.9 per cent more votes than Samajwadi Party,” BSP MLA Umashankar Singh Balla had noted earlier

.Earlier on March 11, Mayawati had admitted that her party’s rout in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election was a “lesson”. The former Chief Minister pointed out that it has become clear that the BSP was not “BJP’s B Team” and that negative campaigns succeeded in misleading the people of the state.

While the BJP had managed to retain power, winning 255 out of 403 constituencies, the SP had emerged as the leading Opposition party. “It is not the BSP, but SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav who is openly with the BJP. In the last swearing-in, he had got Shri Akhilesh blessed by the BJP and has now sent a member to the BJP for his work,” Mayawati had tweeted in Hindi earlier this week, in an apparent reference to Mulayam’s daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav, who recently joined the BJP.