The announcement of what Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has described as an understanding with arch rival Samajwadi Paty to "defeat the BJP" in by-elections on Sunday, has been described by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath as "the coming together of a mongoose and a snake when a storm brews." An act of desperation by those discarded by the people, said his senior minister Srikant Sharma.