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It is significant that despite Mayawati’s claim of the poor show of the alliance, her party has won 10 seats in this election, against zero in the 2014 election.
BSP normally does not contest by-elections but this time it has announced that it will field candidates in the state by-elections.
Priyanka first campaigned for the Congress 20 years ago in 1999 for her mother, Sonia Gandhi, in Amethi.
The SP-BSP combine won 15 of the state’s 80 Lok Sabha seats while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 62 seats.
The SP-BSP alliance just managed to restrain the BJP in Uttar Pradesh to a figure less than it achieved in 2014 but not good enough to stop the saffron party's surge.
The two leaders made a seat-to-seat assessment but decided to wait for the results rather than speculate on the exit poll results.
Bureaucrats, they say, are the best psephologists.
Though TRS chief K Chandrashekar Rao is keen on the formation of a federal front, Stalin is likely to urge him to back the Congress and help form an anti-BJP government.
The results of exit polls were announced immediately after voting ended for the seventh and final round of polling on Sunday.
Naidu's meetings on Saturday a clear indication of what to expect after results.