Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 6 contests in UP to watch out for in Phase 3 voting — Yadavs and BJP heavyweights in the fray

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Key candidates contesting the Lok Sabha polls successful Phase 3 polls successful UP see Dimple Yadav, the woman of Samajwadi Party (SP) main Akhilesh Yadav, and 5 caller faces of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Here's a database cardinal UP candidates contesting the Lok Sabha Elections successful Phase 3:

1. Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat: SP's Dimple Yadav Vs BJP's Jaiveer Singh

Akhilesh Yadav's woman Dimple is contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha polls arsenic an SP campaigner from Mainpuri. She has been pitted against BJP campaigner and Uttar Pradesh's Tourism Minister Jaiveer Singh.

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The Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency has been the bastion of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's family. The spot was earlier held by enactment patriarch Mulayam Singh. He won the Lok Sabha polls from Mainpuri successful 2019 and 2014. The spot fell vacant aft his decease connected October 10, 2022.

Later, Dimple Yadav won the Mainpuri parliamentary by-election successful December 2022 by defeating BJP's Raghuraj Singh Shakya by a borderline of 2,88,461 votes.

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2. Firozabad Lok Sabha seat: SP's Akshaya Yadav Vs Vishwadeep Singh

This Lok Sabha election, the SP is trying triumph backmost the Firozabad Lok Sabha spot by fielding erstwhile MP Akshaya Yadav. He is the lad of Ram Gopal Yadav, the nationalist main wide caput of SP.

Firozabad is simply a stronghold that the SP mislaid to the BJP successful the 2019 polls. The Akhilesh Yadav-led enactment won the spot for 3 consecutive times since 1999 and besides successful 2014. Vishwadeep Singh is the BJP campaigner successful Firozabad.

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Akshaya Yadav, who had mislaid the Firozabad spot successful the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, has been renominated by the enactment to contention against BJP’s Vishwadeep Singh. Singh has replaced sitting MP Chandrasen Jadon.

3. Budaun Lok Sabha seat: SP's Aditya Yadav Vs BJP's Durvijay Singh Shakya

Aditya Yadav, the lad of SP person Shivpal Yadav, is making his electoral debut from the Budaun Lok Sabha seat. This Lok Sabha spot was represented by Aditya's relative Dharmendra Yadav successful 2014.

Aditya volition combat against the BJP's Durvijay Singh Shakya. According to reports, the Shakya assemblage holds important power successful the Bilsi assembly constituency successful the Budaun Lok Sabha segment. The Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) has fielded Muslim Khan from the Budaun seat.

The Budaun Lok Sabha constituency has been an SP bastion since 1996. The spot was won by the BJP successful 2019.

4. Agra (SC) Lok Sabha seat: BJP's SP Baghel Vs SP's Suresh Chandra Kardan

Union Minister SP Singh Baghel will combat for the Agra Lok Sabha seat, reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) arsenic a BJP candidate. Baghel volition contention against Suresh Chandra Kardan of the SP and Pooja Amrohi of the BSP.

The Agra parliamentary spot was a Congress bastion earlier. However, successful the past 2 decades, this spot has been won by either the BJP oregon the SP. The BJP has won the Agra Lok Sabha spot 5 times, since 1991, and 3 times successful a enactment since 2009.

5. Hathras (SC) Lok Sabha seat: BJP's Anoop Pradhan Balmiki Vs SP's Jasveer Balmiki

Uttar Pradesh's Minister of State for Revenue Anoop Pradhan Balmiki is warring the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections from the Hathras spot arsenic the BJP candidate. He volition contention against Jasveer Balmiki of the SP.

6. Etah Lok Sabha seat: BJP's Rajveer Singh Vs SP's Devesh Shakya

BJP's Rajveer Singh, the lad of erstwhile Uttar Pradesh main curate and BJP stalwart Kalyan Singh, is looking to people a hat-trick from the Etah Lok Sabha constituency. He is pitted against SP's Devesh Shakya and BSP's Mohammad. Irfan. The Etah spot was represented by Kalyan Singh arsenic a campaigner of the Jan Kranti Party successful 2009. 

In the Phase 3 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress has fielded 1 campaigner -- Ramnath Singh Sikarwar from Fatehpur Sikri. Its INDIA bloc ally, the Samajwadi Party, has fielded candidates successful the remaining 9 seats successful this phase. Over 1.88 crore voters are eligible to determine the destiny of 100 candidates successful this phase.

The BJP has fielded 5 caller faces – Chhatrapal Gangwar from Bareilly, Durvijay Singh Shakya from Budaun, Anoop Pradhan Balmiki from Hathras-SC, Vishwadeep Singh from Firozabad, and Jaiveer Singh from Mainpuri. The enactment retained the winning candidates from Etah, Agra (SC), Aonla, and Fatehpur Sikri. It besides gave a summons to Parameshwar Lal Saini from Sambhal Lok Sabha seat.

(With inputs from agencies)

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Published: 07 May 2024, 06:23 AM IST