On the election day, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) president Naresh Tikait, who put together a cohesive agitation in western Uttar Pradesh against the farm laws, was busy tending to cows and checking the electricity connection of his chaff-cutting machine. A confident Mr. Tikait said the BJP was losing comprehensively in the region and that the electorate’s rujhan (inclination) was towards the Samajwadi Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal alliance.
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