Even building Ram Mandir or fighting elections in the name of Hindutva isn't working for BJP anymore as it lost in some of the main religious places of Hindu religion as well which are supposedly the major voters of the saffron party.

After the results of the state assembly elections in West Bengal, the Uttar Pradesh panchayat election results have again surprised the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as it seems to be struggling in Ayodhya, Mathura and Varanasi, which is also the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Even tho BJP claims to have won majority of seats in the Panchayat poll, it has failed to gain trust of their own main voters, even in Yogi Adityanath's Gorakhpur the competition remained neck-to-neck with Samajwadi Party.

Out of 40 seats in Ayodhya, the BJP got only six. The top party there was the Samajwadi Party led by former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, which cornered 24 seats. Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party got five seats.

In Mathura, the BJP got only 9 of the 33 seats. The party that had the maximum number of seats, 13, was Mayawati's BSP. Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal and the Samajwadi Party got one seat each.

While in Varanasi, there are 40 Zila Panchayat seats and the Samajwadi Party has won 15 seats while the BJP could win only 8 seats.

All the three cities of Ayodhya, Mathura and Varanasi have been the top priority of BJP but the zila panchayat results and trends indicate that almost eight months before 2022 state assembly elections in the state, the position of the ruling party was not very good.

Interestingly, this is the first time all major political parties are openly backing candidates for panchayat elections — making the polls a virtual semi-final for the Assembly polls next year.