SP candidates Ashutosh Sinha and Lal Bihari Yadav won Varanasi’s teachers’ and graduates’ constituencies, which Akhilesh Yadav called a “double defeat”. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav expressed gratitude to voters in the teachers’ and graduates’ constituencies of Varanasi following the victories of party candidates Ashutosh Sinha and Lal Bihari Yadav. Speaking on Tuesday, he described the outcomes as a “double defeat” for those who had promoted the concept of a “double-engine government”.