Phase 1 of Lok Sabha elections 2019 began today. The voters will choose their representatives on 91 seats in 18 states and two Union Territories. The voting timings are 7 am to 6 pm.
A total of nearly 1300 candidates are contesting for 91 seats
In Uttar Pradesh, these sitting parliamentarians from the BJP are prominent faces - Raghav Lakhanpal, Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan, Kunwar Bharatendra Singh, Rajendra Agarwal, Dr Satya Pal Singh, VK Singh and Mahesh Sharma. From Bahujan Samajwadi Party or BSP, promient faces are Haji Yaqub Qureishi, Haji Fazl Ur Rehman, Malook Nagar, Haji Mohammed Yakub and Satbir Nagar. Congress party vice president Imran Masood, RLD's Ajit Singh and Jayant Chaudhary, SP's Tabassum Hasan are some of the popular faces in Phase 1 of Lok Sabha elections.
The constituency has close to 23 lakh urban and rural voters. Close to 70 per cent voters are from rural areas. Out of five, Noida is its only urban assembly constituency while the other four- Dadri, Jewar, Khurja and Sikandrabad are predominantly rural.
SP-BSP joint candidate Satvir Nagar comes from the Gujjar community, which has the largest chunk of voters. There are close to 6.5 lakh Gujjar voters in Gautam Budh Nagar constituency, followed by around 4 lakh Rajput and Thakur voters and an equal number of Muslim and Dalit voters. Jats, Yadavs, Brahmins and voters of other castes together are close to 5 lakh.
Dr Arvind Kumar Singh is being considered as an outsider by his political opponents in the fray. His father is a BJP MLC from Aligarh. But his supporters are banking on strong presence of Rajput and Thakur voters in Gautam Budh Nagar constituency.
However, the Congress party's strength is a weakness for the BJP's Dr Mahesh Sharma. Rajput and Thakur voters are in sizeable numbers in Jewar, Khurja and Sikandrabad assembly constituencies and a cause to worry for the sitting MP.
With Gujar, Dalit, Muslim and Jat voters tilted towards the SP-BSP-RLD alliance, and the Congress candidate staking claim over the Rajput and Thakur votes, the road ahead appears to be tough for Dr Mahesh Sharma, at least on paper.
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