The BJP had a setback in the local body elections in Ayodhya and Mathura -- seen as a grassroot-level feedback ahead of next year's assembly elections when the Yogi Adityanath government will seek a second term. In Gorakhpur, the home turf of the Chief Minster, it went neck and neck with the Samajwadi Party. Results for most of the other districts -- including Prayagraj and Varanasi -- have not come so far.
