UP Lok Sabha Election 2024
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BSP, which has made deep inroads in politics with the help of Dalit vote bank, has not played the Dalit card even once in Sitapur parliamentary seat. The BSP chief has been making the formula of social engineering the basis of the ticket here. BSP has sometimes been betting on the backward and Muslim class.
BSP, which held the Sitapur seat for one and a half decade, has hit many birds with one stone this time by fielding former MLA Mahendra Yadav. How effective this move of BSP will be will be known on June 4. BSP contested the Sitapur parliamentary seat for the first time in 1989. In this, BSP made Syed Nasir its candidate.
In the very first election, Hathi performed strongly and secured third place with 1,16,680 votes. In the 1991 elections, BSP’s Aziz Khan stood fifth with 35,670 votes. In the 1996 elections, BSP changed its candidate, this time it placed its bet on Premnath Verma. BSP again showed strength in this election.
BSP candidate Premnath stood third by securing 1,17,791 votes. BSP again expressed confidence in Premnath in 1998. Premnath Verma was the runner up in this election by getting 1,88,954 votes. BSP lost this election to BJP’s Janardan Mishra by a margin of 27,920 votes. From here BSP tasted victory in 1999.
