LUCKNOW: The SP-BSP-RLD alliance failed to click in Uttra Pradesh since the transfer of votes the Opposition parties expected did not happen.A comparison of vote share between 2019 Lok Sabha and 2017 UP assembly elections shows that while BJP ’s vote share shot up by 8% this year, it dipped significantly for SP, BSP, and RLD which had struck a pre-poll alliance. Even Congress saw its vote share slip distinctly as compared to what it got in 2017.Riding on the popularity of PM Narendra Modi , BJP saw its vote share rise from 41.57% in 2017 elections to 49.6%. With Apna Dal, the BJP-led NDA saw its vote share increase to almost 51%, which was what the NDA leadership had targeted.Political experts attribute the rise in BJP’s vote share to Modi’s popularity and the ground work the party did to combat SP-BSP alliance. BSP which contested 38 Lok Sabha seats got 19.5% votes and won 10 seats but its vote share was almost three percent less in comparison to 2017 elections when it got over 22% votes.Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party registered a humiliating loss as its vote share dipped from 28.32% in 2017 to 18% — a drop of 10%. The sharp dip resulted in SP winning just five of the 37 seats it contested, and the Yadav clan losing its strongholds, including Kannauj, from where Akhilesh’s wife Dimple had contested as well as Budaun and Firozabad from where Akhilesh’s cousins Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav were in fray, respectively.The story was no different for Ajit Singh’s RLD which faced a complete rout and its vote share slipped from 2.89% in 2017 assembly elections to 1.67% this year despite being part of gathbandhan and expecting transfer of Muslim and Dalit votes. Both, RLD chief Ajit Singh and his son Jayant Chaudhary lost from Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat, respectively.The situation was even more murkier for Congress which saw its vote share dip from 22.09% in 2017 to just 6.31%, more than one-third. The grand old party could win just one seat, Rae Bareli, from where UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi triumphed.