The results have come as a dampener to the party which had projected Mayawati as prime ministerial candidate in the Lok Sabha elections.
BSP's ambitions of emerging as a pan-India party today suffered a further jolt when it failed to make any mark in Maharashtra and Haryana assembly polls.
As the poll results were out, BSP supremo Mayawati's desire of leading a party with a strong base in several states outside Uttar Pradesh failed to materialise with poor showing in the two states where it had shown promise earlier.
The results have come as a dampener to the party which had projected Mayawati as prime ministerial candidate in the Lok Sabha elections.
BSP, which decided to go alone in Maharashtra, failed to win any of the 281 seats it had contested out of the total 288 assembly seats there. On the other hand, its arch rival Samajwadi Party managed to win four seats in Maharashtra.
The performance of Mulayam Singh Yadav's party stung BSP more as SP had failed to open its account in that state during the 2004 assembly elections. BSP at that time too had failed to win any seat there.
Despite Maharashtra having around 30% Dalit votes, BSP failed to open its account in the state. Mayawati had addressed a couple of rallies in the state. In the last assembly elections, it had managed 4% vote share in Maharashtra.
In contrast to BSP's performance, the Third Front formed by Left parties, SP, JD(S) and Republican Party of India (RPI) and smaller Maharashtra based parties like Shetkari Sangathana and Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) managed to win nine seats among them.
The Front, known as Republican Left Democratic Front (RLDF), would be expecting to be included in the government formation as the Congress-NCP have bagged 143 seats among them and may require a few more seats to be comfortably placed in the assembly.
In Haryana, where BSP's vote share in this year's Lok Sabha elections was 21%, managed to win only one seat, the same as in the last assembly elections in 2004.
Another factor which worked against Mayawati's party was a break-up of its pre-poll alliance with Bhajan Lal-led Haryana Janhit Congress which won six seats.
Mayawati, who was the lone star campaigner for her party, addressed around eight rallies in the state and put up candidates in 86 out of the total 90 assembly seats there.
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