Akhilesh represented Kannauj from 2000 to 2012, when he vacated his seat and took over as UP CM. Akhilesh’s wife Dimple won the seat in a by-election and retained it in 2014. bjpSubrata Pathak took the seat from Dimple.
Pathak joins the fray again, this time for a challenge SP The Sheikh himself has been positioning himself as the strongest rival of the saffron brigade in UP.this central bank Sent Imran Bin Jafar, who could nibble Muslim voting base Traditionally always voted for SP.
This stage will also be unique in that it will contain up to five Reserve a seat – Something that might be tested Dalit merger All bids political party. The reserved seats include Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Misrkh, Etawah and Bahraich. The BJP retained all the reserved seats of the sitting MPs, except Balaich, and the saffron party replaced Akshaybal Lal Gond with his son Anand Gond. Anand will be challenged by SP’s Ramesh Gautam and BSP’s Brajesh Sonkar.
Another seat where the BJP has replaced the sitting MP is Kanpur. Ramesh Awasthi has replaced party veteran Satyadev Pachauri in a move that underscores the BJP’s concerted efforts to consolidate its position as a party. Traditional Brahmin Vote Bank Always vote for saffron party since the peak of the Ram Temple movement in the early 1990s.
Awasthi, a former journalist who is considered close to the saffron hierarchy, is relatively new to electoral politics. He will contest against Congress candidate Alok Mishra, backed by the Socialist Party, and Thakur Kuldeep Bhadoria of the Socialist Party of the Philippines.
A fierce competition is expected in Etawah, the hometown of SP team. The constituency was home to the erstwhile Samajwadi Party government’s ambitious lion hunting program and is also famous for being the laboratory of caste alliances for BSP founder Kanshiram, who was elected in 1991 by then Jantar Party leader and Samajwadi Party founder Mu The seat was won with the support of Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Etawah was the political backyard of the Bharatiya Janata Party from 1999 to 2009. Voter loyalty began to shift towards the BJP when the party came to power with a landslide under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014. The seat was won by the BJP’s Ashok Dohre in 2014. Ram Shakar Katheria, who won the seat in 2019.
An interesting contest is brewing in Unnao, with the BJP re-nominating Sakshi Maharaj, the sitting MP from Lodh. A five-time MP, he won from Mathura in 1991, Farrukhabad in 1996 and 1998 and finally Unnao in 2014 and 2019. Annu Tandon.
