At a press conference, Mayawati asserted that the SP's failure to retain its traditional votes from the Yadav community, including in constituencies like Kannauj and Firozabad, "forced" the BSP to rethink its strategy for the Assembly bypolls due in the state.

Reiterating the "mutual respect" between the alliance partners, in particular Akhilesh and his wife Dimple, Mayawati confirmed that the BSP will contest the bypolls to 11 Assembly seats solo, not in partnership with the SP. However, she clarified that this was not a "permanent break" in their ties, and that if the SP was successful in regaining its voters, the BSP would consider allying with the party again.

"It is not a permanent break. In future, if we feel that the SP chief has succeeded in his political endeavours, we will work together again. But if he doesn't succeed, it would be better for us to work separately. So we have decided to fight the by-elections alone," Mayawati said.

Nine BJP MLAs and one each from the BSP and SP were elected to Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 polls. The bypolls will be necessitated after they resign from their respective seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.