The outcome of UP assembly elections will define the future of several top politicians across political parties, including the likes of UP CM Akhilesh Yadav, BSP chief Mayawati, Congress veep Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka.
Winning these elections may establish Akhilesh — also the chief of Samajwadi Party — as the inheritor of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s legacy within his party and make him a contender for leading the non-Congress and non-BJP parties in 2019.
Akhilesh may find himself in the league of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik. He may turn out to be the front-runner of the third front due to the sheer number of the Lok Sabha seats in UP. If Congress fails to set its house in order, the front could be the main challenger to the BJP-led NDA in 2019.
Moreover, if Akhilesh gets a second consecutive term on his own steam — he has made the UP elections presidential by turning the debate to his achievements as CM — it would be an unprecedented event in the state’s recent history.
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