This Article is From Mar 06, 2012

Election results: We wasted huge opportunity in UP, says BJP leader

Lucknow: The BJP looked set for a huge tally in up early this morning. Leads showed the party was all set to beat expectations with 90 of 403 seats seeing within reach. But the momentum slowed down and by 10.30 am, the party looks like it will manage about 60 seats.

A wasted opportunity, said senior leader Sudheendra Kulkarni to NDTV.   "We ought to have done better.The mood for change was very obvious. We ought to have kept the momentum going against the BSP government, but we made some mistakes.  People wanted an alternative, we could have been that alternative."

Mr Kulkarni said he would elaborate on those mistakes later in the day after the final results are declared.

Mr Kulkarni added, "There is a massive anti-Congress mood too and we should have been able to capture this much more effectively and decisively."
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