The BJP has renominated Vinod Sonkar against SP's Indrajeet Saroj and Congress' Girish Chandra Pasi.
Kaushambi Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, will go to polls in the fifth phase of general elections on May 6. The seat is currently held by BJP's Vinod Sonkar who won the 2014 election by defeating Samajwadi Party's Shailendra Kumar by 43,000 votes.
The Lok Sabha constituency, which came into existence following 2008 delimitation exercise, covers parts of two districts - Pratapgarh and Kaushambi - and is reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled castes. The first election on this seat was held in 2009 and SP's Shailendra Kumar emerged victorious by defeating Girish Chandra Pasi of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
However, in 2014, Kumar lost to BJP's Vinod Sonkar. While Kumar polled 2.88 lakh votes and held the second position, BSP's Suresh Pasi was at the third position with 2.01 lakh votes against Sonkar's 3.31 lakh votes.
In this election, the BJP has renominated Sonkar against SP's Indrajeet Saroj and Congress' Girish Chandra Pasi, a former BSP leader.
The parliamentary constituency comprises five assembly segments: Babaganj and Kunda of Pratapgarh district; Sirathu, Manjhanpur and
Chail of Kaushambi district.
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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