Though the BSP president is not contesting the Lok Sabha elections, she said, “if all goes well”, she might have to. Former PM, PV Narasimha Rao, for example, got elected to the Lok Sabha six months after he was sworn in with a margin of more than 580,000 votes. Mayawati’s party is contesting 38 seats in Uttar Pradesh, where it is in alliance with the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal. Yadav has said on multiple occasions that the next prime minister would be from UP. She has won the Lok Sabha elections four times -- 1989, 1998, 1999 and 2004 when the Ambedkar Nagar constituency was called Akbarpur and was reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates --and has been the chief minister of UP four times.

Source: Hindustan Times May 06, 2019 18:22 UTC