also won the 1977 assembly poll saw mitrasen yadav emerging on the political canvass of up as he won from milkipur assembly seat in faizabad on a cpi ticket while defeating dharm chandra of janta party while mitrasen bagged 25861 votes chandra could get 11252 votes this time the cpi won nine seats out 29 from where its candidates contested the votes improved further to 3491 only one candidate of the cpm managed to win out of 35 candidates while 33 were had to lose their deposits another lowpoint in the history of cpm came in 1980 poll when it failed to open its account in up even as its vote share crossed 10 1036 for the cpi it was also not a good performance at all as out of 155 candidates fielded by it only 7 managed to win while 134 lost their deposits while the vote share came down to 975 prominent among the winners were udal from kolsala and mitrasen yadav from milkipur the 1985 assembly election saw the emergence of afzal ansari on ups electoral horizon brother of jailed mafia don mukhtar ansari afzal won on a cpi ticket from mohammadabad in mau defeating abhai narain rai of congress by a margin of 3064 votes the vote share of the party this time dropped to 81 as 142 out of 161 candidates fielded by the party had to forfeit their deposits while only six could win similarly for cpm only two of its candidates out of 25 fielded won while 19 had to forfeit their deposits the scenario was exactly the same in 1989 as the cpi won 6 seats while the cpm bagged 2 seats with only 1 mla from cpm and four from the cpi in 1991 the left parties in up had now embarked on a downward journey this could be gauged from the fact that the vote share of cpm which was 2043 in 1989 had plummeted to 977 in 1991 while another splinter group cpi marxistleninist also appeared in the states electoral scene cpi ml made a very poor start and its lone candidate jai devi from mallawan lost her deposit the 1993 assembly election was the first to be held after the ram templebabri episode the temple had movement had to great extent polarised the votes in up and this was evident on the dipping numbers of the left parties while cpi won three seats the cpm could manage only a single seat the cpi emerged victorious at kolasla udal mohammadabad afzal ansari and milkipur mitrasen yadav cpms ramswroop singh defeated rajender prasad of the bjp by 5912 votes in najibabad in bijnor district the tally of cpi touched singledigit in 1996 out of 15 candidates only rajendra from ghazipur could win while 7 candidates had to lose their deposit the fortunes of cpm however improved as they managed to bag 4 assembly seats while only one candidate had to forfeit his deposit those who won the election include ram