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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati addressing public rally in Etah Uttar Pradesh. The results of the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are yet to sink in as nobody could've anticipated a landslide victory in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While the party and its supporters were busy celebrating a ‘kesariya Holi’, as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we delved into the bigger underlying themes in these elections. While the results might show that Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has been routed, the numbers reveal that Akhilesh is the biggest loser in these elections: Samajwadi Party+Congress alliance's combined vote share as well as seat tally declined compared to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections In 2014, SP and Congress received a vote share of