Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency covers the rural part of Lucknow district and one assembly segment of Sitapur district.
The BJP has fielded sitting MP Kaushal Kishore who is facing CL Verma of the BSP and Congress' RK Chaudhary. The constituency is reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled castes.
The constituency went to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 6.
Election Results 2019: Sitting BJP MP Kaushal Kishore defeated CL Verma of the BSP by 90,229 votes.
Kaushal Kishore (BJP) - 629748 (49.62%), CL Verma (BSP) - 539519 (42.51%), RK Chaudhary (Congress) - 60061 (4.73%)
Constituency profile
Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, covers the rural part of Lucknow district and one assembly segment of Sitapur district.
For 14 years, Mohanlalganj was a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party with Reena Choudhary winning it twice (1998 and 1999), Jai Prakash in 2004 and Sushila Saroj in 2009.
However, in 2014, the BJP sprung a surprise and won it for the third time in its history with Kaushal Kishore emerging victorious. He received 4.55 lakh votes against BSP's RK Chaudhary who got close to 3.1 lakh votes. Sushila Saroj, the sitting MP, was pushed to the third place with 2.42 lakh votes.
The parliamentary constituency comprises four assembly segments of Lucknow district and one assembly constituency of Sitapur district: Malihabad (SC), Bakshi Kaa Talab, Sarojini Nagar, Mohanlalganj (SC) (Lucknow district) and Sidhauli (SC) in Sitapur district.
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: State Profile
In the last parliamentary elections in 2014, the BJP had won 71 seats in the state, securing 42.63 per cent of the votes. BJP ally Apna Dal bagged two more. The Samajwadi Party had won five seats with a vote share of 22.35 per cent. The BSP did not win any seat but secured 19.77 per cent votes. The Congress registered wins on two UP seats in 2014, bagging 7.53 per cent of the votes.
UP is facing a triangular 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 (Rae Bareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi).
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