BSP supremo Mayawati's announcement that her party will support the BJP in the council elections to seven seats in Uttar Pradesh may be counter productive for the party and may be a boom for the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in the state.

One of the first from the Congress to react to Mayawati's open announcement was party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, who said that "anything more left after this", indicating that the BSP supremo's decision to be with the BJP may help the Congress make inroads in the BSP's Dalit vote bank, especially when the Congress has been vocal on Dalit issues. From Sonbhadra to Hathras, the Congress has been at the forefront of the agitations.