Overconfidence hurt BJP's hopes in Lok Sabha polls: Adityanath at party meeting

In the first major meeting of the Uttar Pradesh BJP unit after the Lok Sabha poll debacle in the state, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said “overconfidence” hurt the BJP’s hopes in this year’s elections.

Addressing the BJP’s UP working committee meeting here, Adityanath said while the BJP managed managed to maintain its vote share of previous elections, there was a “shifting of votes”, and now the “defeated” opposition is “jumping around” again.

The chief minister said, “Under the leadership of PM Modi, we had maintained constant pressure on the opposition in UP, achieving great success in 2014, 2017, 2019 and 2022 (national and state elections).”