In what can be termed as the first after-shock of Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll results, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) state president Masood Ahmed has resigned from the party, accusing the top leadership of selling tickets to candidates for the recently-concluded elections. The RLD won eight of around three dozen seats it contested in alliance with the Samajwadi Party. The state party unit already stood dissolved since the announcement of poll results on March 10.

Masood Ahmed also alleged that the alliance failed to wrest power from the BJP due blunders made by both RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary and SP president Akhilesh Yadav. In a letter to Jayant Chaudhary, Ahmed alleged that tickets were sold to undeserving candidates, side-lining Muslims and Dalits. He also alleged that the RLD-SP alliance failed to come to power because of 'internal dictatorship'.