The Nagina Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, is currently held by the BJP’s Yashwant Singh who won the seat for the first time in 2014 by defeating SP's Yashvir Singh by more than 92,000 votes. This constituency came into existence in 2008, as a part of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies and has been reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled castes.
The BJP has again fielded Yashwant Singh who will face BSP's Girish Chandra and Congress' Omwati Devi Jatav. Chandra is the SP-BSP-RLD Mahagathbandhan's candidate.
Before Yashwant Singh, Yashvir Singh of the Samajwadi Party held the seat from 2009-2014. He had defeated Ram Kishan Singh of the BSP and Munshiram of the RLD which was contesting the polls in an alliance with the BJP.
The constituency has a huge number of Muslim and Dalit population and the Mahagathbandhan is hoping to consolidate the anti-BJP votes. However, Congress candidate may ruin the calculation for the alliance if she succeeds in securing a significant number of votes.
The Nagina is part of Bijnor district in Western Uttar Pradesh and is made of five Assembly constituencies - Najibabad, Nagina, Dhampur, Nehtaur and Noorpur.
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 Nagina 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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