BJP’s Arun Govil wins from Meerut Lok Sabha seat, defeats BSP and SP candidates

Meerut Elections Result 2024: BJP’s new entrant Arun Govil, who played the role of Lord Ram in the popular TV serial Ramayana, won the Meerut Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, defeating his nearest rival Sunita Verma of the Samajwadi Party. Govil won by a margin of 10,585 votes, wherein Govil secured 5,46,469 votes, SP’s Sunita Verma got 5,35,884 votes and BSP’s Devvrat Kumar Tyagi got 87,025 votes.

Govil, 66, replaced three-time MP Rajendra Agarwal who has been holding the Meerut seat since 2004. After securing the Meerut seat in the seat-sharing deal with Congress as a part of the I.N.D.I.A. alliance, SP fielded former Meerut Mayor Sunita Verma. While candidates of BJP and BSP having their first shot at Meerut politics, Sunita Verma has a little edge in terms of experience in the city, which significantly increases SP’s chances of securing the win in Meerut.

As per 2011 data, Meerut has approximately 3.5 million, with 65% Hindus and 36% Muslims. In the 2019 general elections, the incumbent Rajendra Agarwal from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured victory with 586,184 votes (48.00% vote share), defeating Haji Mohammad Yaqoob of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). In the 2014 elections, Rajendra Agarwal also emerged victorious, obtaining 532,981 votes (47.86% vote share) against BSP candidate Mohammad Shahid Akhlak.