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Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency: Pilibhit, one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the largest Lok Sabha seat-holder Uttar Pradesh, is known for sending a woman to the Indian Parliament more than five times.
With the Lok Sabha elections 2024 in Pilibhit constituency scheduled to go into polls tomorrow in Phase 1 on the 19th of April, Friday, the BJP’s Jitin Prasada, the SP’s Bhagwat Saran Gangwar, and Anis Ahmed Khan from the BSP are in the political fray.
Voting will commence tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. and conclude at 5:00 p.m., with an additional hour provided as a buffer period for voters who are already present in the voting line.
The constituency has been historically dominated by the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) in its early years, but the political preferences shifted towards the Indian National Congress (INC), with Menaka Gandhi keeping this seat under her influence.
However, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Pilibhit witnessed a shift towards the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with Varun Gandhi, Maneka Gandhi’s son, winning the seat.
The BJP has fielded Jitin Prasada, PWD minister in the Yogi Adityanath government, as its candidate from the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which comes as a surprise, as the constituency has been a stronghold of the Gandhi family, with Maneka Gandhi or her son Varun Gandhi
Shifting to the Bharatiya Janata Party from Congress on June 9, 2021, Prasada has held various positions in the Lok Sabha, including Minister of State for Steel, Member of the Committee on Petitions, Member of the Committee on Information Technology and Communications, and Member of the Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation, and the Ministry of Steel, in addition to being appointed as the Minister of Public Works Department, Government of Uttar Pradesh, on March 25, 2022.
A five-time MLA from Nawabganj in Bareilly, Bhagwat Saran Gangwar, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Bareilly on an SP ticket. In the 2019 elections, Gangwar lost the elections to the sitting Member of Parliament from Bareilly, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, who won with a margin of 167,282 votes.
The SP has fielded Gangwar from Pilibhit for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections amid speculation about Varun Gandhi, the incumbent BJP MP on the seat.
Anis Ahmed Khan, also known as Phool Babu, contesting as a candidate from the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for the Pilibhit parliamentary seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024.
