In the Uttar Pradesh Election 2017, Many Veteran Candidates of Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) are into stake. They are Ramachal Rajbhar from Ambedkar Nagar, Lalji Verma, Rakesh Pandey, O. P. Tripathy, TRibhuvan Dutt, Ram Prasad Chaudhary, Dr. K. K. Sachan and Dharmraj Nishad, they all were Cabinet Ministers in the BSP Govt. In the fifth session of election on 52 seats there BSP didn’t perform upto the mark, they only got two seats from BAsti and one from Behriach, also in 2014 election, BSP not perform well while in 2007 election went so well fro BSP in UP.