Mayawati’s Bahujan Samajan Party made mincemeat out of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, BJP and Rahul Gandhi’s Congress Party in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections of April/May 2007.

The BSP won 207 seats, large enough to form a government on its own.

Following the defeat of his Samajwadi Party, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav submitted his resignation to state Governor T V Rajeshwar.

Son of Congress Party leader Sonia Gandhi and a Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, Rahul Gandhi campaigned intensively for his party but failed to convince the people of this backward state.

With a pitiful 21 seats, the Congress Party came a humiliating fourth in the elections, behind Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, which won 100 seats and the BJP which got 50 seats.

Save his birth in the Nehru-Gandhi family, the 37-year-old Rahul Gandhi has little going for him.