Lok Sabha polls: Why hasn't BJP declared candidates in UP's Rae Bareli, Kaiserganj, Deoria and Firozabad?
Uttar Pradesh will vote in all the seven phases during the Lok Sabha elections. Polling in Rae Bareli and Kaisergang is scheduled to take place in the fifth phase on May 20, Firozabad in phase three on May 7, and Deoria in the last phase on June 1.
Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Election 2024: Polling for the upcoming parliamentary elections will be held in seven phases beginning April 19 and the result day is scheduled for June 4. One of the key states whose result will matter the most is Uttar Pradesh, which is having 80 Lok Sabha seats, highest among all the states. For any party to strengthen its chances in the general elections, Uttar Pradesh is of prime importance as it sends maximum number of parliamentarians to the Lok Sabha.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which won 73 seats in 2014 and 65 in 2019, is looking to outperform its performance in the upcoming polls. The party is aspiring to win 80 out of 80 seats in the state, in order to achieve its 400-plus target. Though the saffron party has announced candidates in most of the seats in UP, some key seats including Rae Bareli, Firozabad, Kaiserganj and Deoria are still left.
Rae Bareli
Rae Bareli, has remained a Congress bation for decades. Congress partiarch Sonia Gandhi is the incumbent MP from here. However, the BJP, like it unrest Rahul Gandhi from Amethi, would like to take another stronghold seat -- Rae Bareli from Congress -- in the forthcoming polls.
The challenge on this seat may have come down a bit as Sonia Gandhi has already moved to Rajya Sabha, but still, the BJP is taking time to declare candidate in Rae Bareli who can assure party's victory and dethrone Congress from Uttar Pradesh completely.
Kaiserganj
BJP's Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is the incumbent MP in Kaiserganj, who won in 2019 with a huge margin. But ever since his name surfaced in sexual molestation case in the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) when some women wrestlers accused him of wrond deeds, the party has not been able to announce its candidate name.
Firozabad
Firozabad is considered to be Samajwadi Party's (SP) stronghold. But in 2019, BJP's Chandrasen Jadon defeated SP candidate Akshay Yadav, son of Ramgopal Yadav by a margin of around 28,000 votes. Though, SP has bet once again on Akshay Yadav, the BJP wants to field a strong candidate this time, considering Firozabad a Samajwadi Party's bation.
Deoria
According to Congress-Samajwadi Party (SP) seat-sharing agreement in Uttar Pradesh, the 'Grand Old Party' will contest in Deoria seat against the BJP. The party has fielded its senior leader Akhilesh Pratap Singh, a former MLA from Rudrapur in the upcoming polls.
All these four seats may witness an interesting contest in the forthcoming polls and for the BJP to proceed forward on its 400-plus and 80 out of 80 seats objectives, a right selection of candidate will definitely matter. Below is the list of BJP candidates already announced for Uttar Pradesh.
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Constituency |
Candidate |
State |
Party |
Polling Day |
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Saharanpur |
Raghav Lakhanpal |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 1 on April 19 |
|
Kairana |
Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 1 on April 19 |
|
Muzaffarnagar |
Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 1 on April 19 |
|
Bijnor |
Chandan Chauhan |
Uttar Pradesh |
RLD |
Phase 1 on April 19 |
|
Nagina |
Om Kumar |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 1 on April 19 |
|
Moradabad |
Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar Singh |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 1 on April 19 |
|
Rampur |
Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 1 on April 19 |
|
Sambhal |
Parmeshwar Lal Saini |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Amroha |
Kanwar Singh Tanwar |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 2 on April 26 |
|
Meerut |
Arun Govil |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 2 on April 26 |
|
Baghpat |
Rajkumar Sangwan |
Uttar Pradesh |
RLD |
Phase 2 on April 26 |
|
Ghaziabad |
Atul Garg |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 2 on April 26 |
|
Gautam Budhha Nagar |
Dr Mahesh Sharma |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 2 on April 26 |
|
Bulandshahr |
Bhola Singh |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 2 on April 26 |
|
Aligarh |
Satish Kumar Gautam |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 2 on April 26 |
|
Hathras |
Anoop Pradhan |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Mathura |
Hema Malini |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 2 on April 26 |
|
Agra |
SP Singh Baghel |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Fatehpur Sikri |
Rajkumar Chahar |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Firozabad |
Yet to be announced |
Uttar Pradesh |
|
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Mainpuri |
Jaiveer Singh Thakur |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Etah |
Rajveer Singh |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Badaun |
Durvijay Singh Shakya |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Aonla |
Dharmendra Kashyap |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Bareilly |
Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 3 on May 7 |
|
Pilibhit |
Jitin Prasada |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 1 on April 19 |
|
Shahjahanpur |
Arun Kumar Sagar |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Kheri |
Ajay Mishra Teni |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Dhaurahra |
Rekha Verma |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Sitapur |
Rajesh Verma |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Hardoi |
Jai Prakash Rawat |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Misrikh |
Ashok Kumar Rawat |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Unnao |
Sakshi Maharaj |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Mohanlalganj |
Kaushal Kishore |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Lucknow |
Rajnath Singh |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Rae Bareli |
Yet to be announced |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Amethi |
Smriti Irani |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Sultanpur |
Maneka Gandhi |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Pratapgarh |
Sangam Lal Gupta |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Farrukhabad |
Mukesh Rajput |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Etawah |
Ram Shankar Katheria |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Kannauj |
Subrat Pathak |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Kanpur |
Ramesh Awasthi |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Akbarpur |
Devendra Singh Bhole |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Jalaun |
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Jhansi |
Anurag Sharma |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Hamirpur |
Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Banda |
RK Singh Patel |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Fatehpur |
Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Kaushambi |
Vinod Sonkar |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Phulpur |
Praveen Patel |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Allahabad (Prayagraj) |
Neeraj Tripathi |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Barabanki |
Rajrani Rawat |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Faizabad |
Lallu Singh |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Ambedkar Nagar |
Ritesh Pandey |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Bahraich |
Arvind Gond |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 4 on May 13 |
|
Kaiserganj |
Yet to be announced |
Uttar Pradesh |
|
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Shrawasti |
Saket Mishra |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Gonda |
Kirti Vardhan Singh |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 5 on May 20 |
|
Domariyaganj |
Jagdambika Pal |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Basti |
Harish Dwivedi |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Sant Kabir Nagar |
Praveen Kumar Nishad |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Maharajganj |
Pankaj Chaudhary |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Gorakhpur |
Ravi Kishan |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Kushi Nagar |
Vijay Kumar Dubey |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Deoria |
Yet to be announced |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Bansgaon |
Kamlesh Paswan |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Lalganj |
Neelam Sonkar |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Azamgarh |
Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Ghosi |
Arvind Rajbhar |
Uttar Pradesh |
SBSP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Salempur |
Ravindra Kushawaha |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Ballia |
Neeraj Shekhar |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Jaunpur |
Kripashankar Singh |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Machhlishahr |
BP Saroj |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 6 on May 25 |
|
Ghazipur |
Paras Nath Rai |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Chandauli |
Mahendra Nath Pandey |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Varanasi |
Narendra Modi |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |
Phase 7 on June 1 |
|
Bhadohi |
Vinod Kumar Bind |
Uttar Pradesh |
BJP |