BSP failed to make a mark in polls, but played spoiler for both BJP & Congress in 70 seats

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New Delhi: The Bahujan Samaj Partys (BSP) diminishing trajectory continued in the latest round of assembly elections as it drew a blank in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana..

The Mayawati-led party fared marginally better in Rajasthan where it managed to win just two seats...

The victory margins in these 66 seats were less than the votes secured by the BSP/GGP candidates.. Further, the BSP emerged runners-up in additional four seats 3 in Madhya Pradesh and 1 in Rajasthan pushing the Congress to the third spot..

In Madhya Pradesh, on 24 seats that Congress won, the BSP and the GGP secured more votes than the victory margin, thereby hurting the BJP candidates..

Overall, the BSP cut into the BJP votes on 31 seats and the Congress on 39 seats in the four states, apart from Mizoram, that went to polls from 7 November to 30 November...

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