Home to world-renowned Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), the Aligarh Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The parliamentary seat is currently held by BJP’s Satish Kumar Gautam who was at the centre of controversy last year for targeting the AMU over the portrait of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the campus.
Gautam won the seat for the first time in 2014 by defeating BSP's Arvind Kumar Singh with a margin of more than 2.86 lakh votes.
Before Gautam, Raj Kumari Chauhan of the BSP held the seat from 2009-2014. She had defeated Zafar Alam of the Samajwadi Party to win the seat. Before her, Bijendra Singh of the Congress won from here in 2004 by defeating 4-term MP Sheela Gautam.
Satya Pal Malik, currently the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, represented Aligarh in the Lok Sabha from 1989-91.
The BJP has again fielded Satish Kumar Gautam while the BSP has nominated Ajit Baliyan who will be the SP-BSP-RLD Mahagathbandhan's candidate. The Congress has fielded former MP Brijender Singh.
The Aligarh Lok Sabha constituency is part of Aligarh district in Western Uttar Pradesh and comprises five Assembly constituencies - Khair (SC), Barauli, Atrauli, Koil and Aligarh.
UP is facing a three-pronged battle between the BJP, the Congress and BSP-SP-RLD alliance. Under the alliance's seat-sharing formula, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is contesting on 38 Lok Sabha seats of the total 80 seats, Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party on 37 seats and the Chaudhary Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on three seats. The alliance has left two for Congress' Sonia Gandhi (Raebareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi).
The polling in Aligarh will be held in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 18. The results of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be declared on May 23.
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