As SP and BSP join hands, BJP lose all three Lok Sabha bypolls in UP and Bihar; Gorakhpur, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s stronghold for 5 terms, falls to Samajwadi Party; After victory in UP bypolls, Akhilesh Yadav thanks Mayawati and the BSP; In first test after breaking of the grand alliance, Lalu Yadav shows he can’t be written off as RJD hold on to Araria parliamentary seat and the Jehanabad assembly seat. BJP holds on to Bhabhua; Government pushes through finance bill without any discussion leading to protests from the opposition; Supreme Court dismisses intervention applications of 32 eminent persons in the Babri Masjid case, says dispute now rests between those who were party to the suits before the Allahabad High Court.
