LUCKNOW, Jan. 15 -- Hitting out at Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Thursday, Samajwadi Party (SP) national general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav said her political relevance was "practically over" and that people were well aware of the position the BSP was in.

Reacting to Mayawati's criticism of the SP earlier in the day during a press conference in Lucknow on the occasion of her birthday, Shivpal said the SP had emerged as the second-largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha and claimed that public support was steadily shifting towards it.

The SP leader, who is also the Jaswantnagar MLA, was in Sitapur to attend a farmers' meeting in the Laharpur assembly constituency. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, he questio...