said Yudvir Singh Yadav from Jaswantnagar. In the Karhal seat where the BJP bigwig Amit Shah had asked the voters to the two have patched up and held joint rallies and roadshows with the family patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. The result is a unity that is reflected in six districts where the Yadavas are estimated to constitute over 38 per cent of the electorate. At the Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah district from where Shivpal Yadav had survived even the massive BJP wave in 2017 and won by a margin of about 50 the voters in the Yadav heartland attribute the losses incurred then to the split in the SP due to the animosity between Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav. This time around as the third phase of Assembly elections concluded on Sunday. The BJP had trounced the Yadav clan in their pocket-borough that includes swathes of Mainpuri the BJP had won a whopping 49 of the total 59 seats in the total 16 districts that poll in the third phase in 2017. Largely Lalitpur where the ruling party had won all the 19 seats in the 2017 elections. BJP has a strong caste support base of Thakurs in this arid The ChaCha-Bathija team supplies power to SP at Fort Yadav. Samajwadi party National President Akhilesh Yadav with his wife Dimple Yadav after casting the vote during the third phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in Saifai on Sunday | Photo Credit SANDEEP SAXENA The voter enthusiasm for the Samajwadi Party’s chief ministerial candidate Akhilesh Yadav was evident from over 62 per cent polling till 5 pm at Karhal seat in the Yadavs’ bastion district the BJP had not bothered to depute polling agents. What the BJP loses out in the six districts in the We don’t want the goonda raj to come back to UP. There has not been a single riot of the scale of Muzaffarnagar riots that took place under the SP’s watch. The police act in a disciplined way and the local mafia an corruption have been contained