"We respect the mandate... Our party will continue to work to strengthen secular forces. BJP has only tried to spread communalism and it's the victory of communal forces," SP spokesman Rajendra Chowdhury told PTI.
He said that the party would review its performance in the days to come as the SP-led government in Uttar Pradesh had done a lot of development work.
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