Akhilesh Yadav underplays LS poll debacle, calls it 'failed experiment'

The SP chief said the experiment exposed the weaknesses of such an association, but also offered some valuable lessons

Dumped by Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati after their alliance came a cropper in the national election, Samajwadi Party leader and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav sought to explain away the failure as just an unsuccessful experiment. "I have been a science student. There are trials and sometimes trials fail," the Samajwadi Party leader told his party colleagues. Underplaying what is largely seen as a failure of the Opposition parties to come together against the Bharatiya Janata Party juggernaut, he said the experiment exposed the weaknesses of such an association, but also offered some valuable lessons. Unlike