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hase 1 will be tough for the BJP, the Samajwadi Party alliance is a more potent one, a weakened Yogi Adityanath will emerge due to loss of seats, expressways bring votes, and BSP will be in a king-maker role — the Uttar Pradesh results have busted these five myths that came to be associated with the elections.

Much of this was a result of the ‘political wisdom’ flowing out of misunderstanding of pre-election issues affecting the state. On ground, the realities were quite different. The results show it.

MYTH 1: PHASE ONE TOUGH FOR BJP

Jat ‘anger’, the SP-RLD alliance and the farmer agitation — these three factors were cited to say the BJP will be wiped out in the first phase of the elections in West UP. The results, however, show that BJP won 46 out of the 58 seats in the first phase while the SP-RLD alliance had to be content with only 12 seats. This shows that the Jats did not desert the BJP and, in fact, it was the good law and order situation and the reluctance of the Jats to vote for the SP symbol even though RLD was its ally.