BSP Supremo Mayawati's latest offer of opposition parties unity to stop BJP, is being seen as an opportunist move. According to experts, Mayawati's RS term will expire next year in April. She wants opposition parties support to retain the RS seat again. Because her party is not having required MLAs to elect her to Rajya Sabha, she is talking about such unity.

The BJP calls the idea of a grand alliance a non-starter. "Whether Akhilesh forms alliance or a grand alliance, he won't be able to stop the BJP. People of the nation are with Prime Minister Modi and they want development," said Keshav Prasad Maurya, the deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.