Lucknow, November 11: Even as the ruling BSP sailed smoothly riding high on its social engineering formula and won nine seats, opposition party including SP, Congress and BJP took a beating in the by-elections in Uttar Pradesh.
While the BJP candidates lost their security deposits at as many as eight places, including Firozabad, Congress nominees lost their deposit money at six and SP at five places in the bypolls, of which the results were announced yesterday.
In Firozabad, though BJP nominee Bhanu Pratap Singh was placed on the fourth place, he got only 9,269 votes, which was merely 1.18 per cent of the total votes polled.
The party suffered a major setback in Kolasla, where its candidate Ajay Singh not only lost his security deposit, but was placed seventh with 3,649 votes.
–PTI