Lucknow, June 6 -- A day after the mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) was formally suspended,SPnationalpresident AkhileshYadavlikenedthepolitics of alliance with scientific experimentsandsaidthat"sometimes experiments do fail." Speaking to the media on the SP's course of action after meetingMuslimcommunitymembers onEid,Yadavsaid,"Ihavebeena sciencestudent.Thereareexperiments, and experiments don't alwayssucceed.Butthenonegets to know one's weaknesses. "WhatIhadsaidforMayawati ji at the first joint press conference, I still say that 'Mera samman unka samman hai (my honourisherhonour)'. Asfarasgathbandhan or fighting elections alone is concerned, political roads are wide open for all. I will consult my party leaders on our future strategy," he said. On Tuesday, both Mayawati and Yadav - he has a Master's in environmentalengineeringfrom Sydney -- announced that the grand alliance forged to take on theBharatiyaJanataParty(BJP) in the general elections was suspended as of now and that both partieswouldcontesttheupcoming by-elections for 11 assembly seats separately. Thefirsthintofthemahabathbandhan- itwononly15LS seats comparedtotheBJP's62inUttar Pradesh - coming apart came from BSP national president Mayawati on Monday. On Tuesday, she formally announcedthattheBSPwouldgo italoneintheby-pollsbuthinted that alliance doors would still remainopen in case Yadav managedtorevivehisparty." Butifhe fails to re-activate his party, it is betterthatwegoseparateways," she said. Ofthe15seatsthatthemahagathbandhan won in Uttar Pradesh, the BSP won 10 seats and theSP5.Thethirdpartner,Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), drew a blank. The BSP, which won no seats in the 2014 general elections, was the only gainer from the alliance. The SP tally remained the same in both elections. ButMayawatichosetopart ways,blamingtheSPforfailingto transfer Yadav votes to mahagathbandhan. ProfessorSKDwivedi,apoliticalanalystandtheretiredheadof the department of political science said: "If it was an experimentthatfailed... Nowmoveon.I hadsaidseveraltimesbeforethat afriendshipwithMayawatidoes notlast. The2019alliancewasan opportunistic alliance between ideologically different entities."...