Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party, which had major victories in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, securing the lion’s share of seats from Uttar Pradesh, faced significant losses from the state. It was a sterling show by Samajwadi Party who won 37 seats, while its ally Congress bagged 6, as the ruling BJP had to settle for 36 seats.
Among the prominent figures losing their seats were Union Minister Smriti Irani from Amethi, Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra from Kheri, and Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur.
In the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party forged an alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), allocating it the Baghpat and Bijnor Lok Sabha seats as part of a seat-sharing plan.
Currently, RLD candidate Rajkumar Sangwan is leading in Baghpat, previously won by the BJP, was seeing a victory on June 4, with its by over 1.5 lakh votes.
In the last Lok Sabha election in 2019, the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party contested 37 of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with Mayawati’s BSP and Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).
