New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh will usher in single party rule after 14 years with the thumping victory of the Mayawati-led BSP bringing coalition politics to an end.
BSP reached the crucial 202 mark in the 403-member House as the results of the Assembly polls were announced on Friday. Riding on the Ram wave, Kalyan Singh led the last single party government when BJP assumed office on June 24, 1991.
The government was dismissed on December 6, 1992 by the Centre following demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya.
The Assembly elections in 1993 saw Samajwadi Party and BSP fighting the polls together and had won 175 seats. Though the BJP had won 177 seats, the Congress and the Janata Dal extended support to the SP-BSP alliance, which resulted in anointment of Yadav as the Chief Minister of the state.
The SP-BSP government was short lived and the two parties turned bitter foes after the attack on the BSP supremo Mayawati in 1995 following her withdrawal of support to the SP government.
The Assembly polls, that followed soon after were held under the President's rule in 1996 saw BSP forging an alliance with the Congress and bagging 67 seats while the Congress had to contend with only 33 seats.
The BJP had in 1996 won 176 seats and emerged as the single largest party but yet it could not form the government, as no party was ready to support it.
The BJP and BSP, however, stitched an alliance about seven months after the polls on the basis of six monthly rotational formula.
BSP leader Mayawati became the Chief Minister for the first six months but later broke the alliance throwing the state into political turmoil once again.
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