BJP's Rajesh Verma is facing a former MP and a former state minister.
One of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Sitapur will go to polls in the fifth phase of general elections on May 6. The sitting MP of Sitapur is Rajesh Verma, who won the seat in 2014 by 50,000 votes.
Verma had won from the seat twice on Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket in 1999 and 2004 but shifted to Dhaurahra Lok Sabha constituency in 2009 where he lost to Congress' Jitin Prasada. He left the BSP in 2013 and joined the BJP and contested 2014 election on its ticket from Sitapur. He defeated sitting MP Kaiser Jahan and became an MP for the third time.
In 2019, Kaiser Jahan was denied ticket by the BSP which has fielded former Uttar Pradesh minister Nakul Dubey. Jahan joined the Congress and is its nominee against Verma and Dubey.
Shivpal Yadav's Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) has also fielded a candidate here.
The parliamentary constituency comprises five assembly segments of Sitapur district: Biswan, Laharpur, Mahmoodabad, Sevata and Sitapur.
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).
Fifth phase polls in UP
The polling for 14 Lok Sabha seats in UP will be held in the fifth phase on May. The parliamentary constituencies going to polls in fifth phase are Dhaurahra, Sitapur, Mohanlalganj (SC), Lucknow, Raebareli, Amethi, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambi, Barabanki (SC), Ayodhya (earlier known as Faizabad), Bahraich (SC), Kaisarganj and Gonda.
In 2014, the BJP won 12 of these 14 seats in the state. Only Amethi and Raebareli, traditional bastions of the Congress, were won by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi respectively.
There are 2.47 crore voters in the 14 parliamentary constituencies. This includes 1.32 crore male voters and 1.14 crore female voters. The count of voters in the age bracket of 18-19 years is 3.39 lakh, while the number of voters aged 80 years is 4.84 lakh.
The number of voting centres is 16,126; while there are as many as 28,702 polling booths.
The counting of votes of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be conducted on May 23.
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