The Uttar Pradesh elections will not throw a surprise result, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Saturday exuding confidence of forming government in the state and claimed the “real surprise” will be in Gujarat assembly polls due later this year. He claimed the people of Uttar Pradesh have already given their verdict and the BJP is “nervous”.

“A wrestler who loses sometimes bites or pulls. These people [BJP] have already lost,” Yadav said at a press conference along with Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudhry, after taking the “anna sankalp” of defeating the BJP.