there is nothing abt hindu unity in this man... let me help u understand this. BSP and SP has a vote bank(caste based) that is sure going to follow BSP/SP(irrespective of the candidate).And if BSP/SP gives ticket to an other caste candidate(say BSP giving it to any Brahmin or Yadav, SP giving it to any Brahmin/Dalit) then there comes an additional vote bank for them.The point here is SP is too much guided by Amar Singh, who supports Thakur's.Yadav are already with SP and Muslims(not sure of now)too.So there remains brahmins to be taken in.Here the diff btw Maya and Mulayama was that Mayawati was early to pick this and we see the result.And thats why we see a loss for both SP and BJP.Also for confirmation of my point when u see the list of successfull candidate, please the list of Brahmins in BSP. Sorry to say friend...this caste based politics is going too deep now.Lets see where it stops.