Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha Election Results 2019 UP: BJP's Praveen Nishad defeats BSP's Kushal Tiwari by 35,000 votes
BJP's Sharad Tripathi was denied ticket by the party which fielded Praveen Nishad from Sant Kabir Nagar.
Denying ticket to Sharad Tripathi, BJP has fielded newly-inducted leader Praveen Nishad. The BSP has fielded Kushal Tiwari while the Congress has placed its bets on Bhalchandra Yadav. The constituency went to polls in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 12.
Election Results 2019: BJP's Praveen Nishad defeats BSP's Bheeshma Shankar alias Kushal Tiwari by 35,749 votes.
Constituency profile
Sant Kabir Nagar district was carved out of Basti and Siddharth Nagar districts in 1997 and named after 15th-century mystic poet Kabir. The district headquarters is Khalilabad. Two out of the five assembly segments of Sant Kabir Nagar Lok Sabha constituency were part of erstwhile Khalilabad Lok Sabha constituency.
Bhismshankar Tiwari alias Kushal won in 2009 while the seat is currently held by BJP's Sharad Tripathi.
Tripathi was at the centre of a huge controversy after he had beaten a local BJP MLA Rakesh Singh Baghel with shoes after heated arguments at a meeting. He is the son of veteran BJP leader and former state unit president Ramapati Ram Tripathi.
The parliamentary constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha segments: Alapur (Ambedkar Nagar), Menhdawal, Khalilabad, Dhanghata and Khajani (Gorakhpur).
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).