India, Oct. 29 -- Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party after Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya's remark on the MLC election results, claiming the latter was "secretly happy about the PDA's victory." Maurya had on Wednesday said the BJP had not won as many seats as it had expected, adding that SP had registered victory on seats that "it should not have."

The BJP won six seats overall in the elections to 11 UP Legislative Council graduate and teachers' constituency seats, while the Samajwadi Party secured five seats in the results announced on Wednesday.

The BJP suffered a setback in its strongholds of Varanasi, Lucknow, Jhansi, and the Agra region. While the party's tally ...