Suspense over UP bypolls
Three ministers in the Adityanath government — Satyadev Pachauri, Rita Bahuguna Joshi and SPS Baghel— have become MPs. The party will have to fill these vacancies and also find candidates for the bypolls. So the BJP MLAs are all agog. The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party are currently being quite reserved towards each other. Will they sink their differences and collaborate? Is it going to be Mahagathbandhan redux? Or is Akhilesh Yadav going to be at the mercy of his family once again? We will know soon enough, as soon as the Election Commission