The elections were still half-way when bureaucrats at the Uttar Pradesh secretariat, save a couple of Mayawati die-hards, emphatically said that the state was headed for a regime change. On the pancham sthal (fifth floor) of Sachivalaya (secretariat), the wager was on the quantum of losses she would suffer. The most charitable estimate was she would drop from her 2007 high of 206 seats to around 110; the unkindest was she would plummet to 60 or so and perhaps trail the BJP.