The Srinagar and Baramulla Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir haven’t elected the BJP or Congress for greater than 25-30 years, making them much like Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri, which voted for the Congress final within the 1984 polls. (Representational picture/Getty)
The three seats will see Lok Sabha elections in several phases. Mainpuri will go for polls on Might 7, Srinagar on Might 13, and Baramulla on Might 20
Indian politics is dynamic and relating to Lok Sabha elections, notably in northern India, it’s largely all concerning the Bharatiya Janata Celebration and Congress. But the Srinagar and Baramulla Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir haven’t elected any of those events for greater than 25-30 years, making them much like Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri, which voted for the Congress final within the 1984 polls.
Whereas in Mainpuri, it’s the Samajwadi Celebration that has been elected continuous since 1996, the 2 Lok Sabha seats in J&Okay had elected both the Jammu and Kashmir Individuals’s Democratic Celebration or Jammu & Kashmir Nationwide Convention.
The BJP has by no means been elected from these seats. However, the Congress was elected from Baramulla and Srinagar final in 1996. The Congress received from Srinagar solely as soon as whereas in Baramulla it managed to win thrice because the formation of the Lok Sabha seat.
Mainpuri
In seven Lok Sabha elections and two bypolls held since 1996, the Samajwadi Celebration had been sweeping the seat. The then social gathering head Mulayam Singh Yadav was elected first in 1996. He was re-elected in 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019. Nevertheless, he vacated the seat in 2004 after he grew to become chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, and in 2014, as he was additionally elected from Azamgarh. Within the subsequent bypolls, his social gathering retained the seat.
In Mainpuri, the Congress has received 5 occasions solely – in 1952, 1962, 1967, 1971, and 1984. Within the whole 17 Lok Sabha polls held on the seat, members of the Praja Socialist Celebration (1952), Janata Celebration (1977, 1991), Janata Dal (1989), and Janata Celebration (Secular) (1980) had been additionally elected.
Srinagar
For the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat, within the 13 elections the constituency has witnessed since 1967, late Sheikh Abdullah’s based social gathering Jammu & Kashmir Nationwide Convention (NC) has been elected 10 occasions. His spouse, Begum Akbar Jehan, their son Farooq, and later grandson, Omar, had been elected from the seat seven occasions collectively.
The social gathering didn’t win the seat solely thrice – in 1971, when an unbiased candidate was elected, in 1996, when the Congress received, and in 2014 when the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP) received. The BJP fought the 2014 elections in alliance with Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP. Whereas the NC misplaced the 2014 polls, it managed to get re-elected within the 2017 bypolls after PDP’s Tariq Hamid Karra resigned.
Baramulla
The seat has witnessed 14 Lok Sabha elections since 1957 and the NC has received 9 occasions. The Congress has received from the seat 4 occasions – in 1957, 1967, 1971, and 1996. The PDP has been elected from the seat simply as soon as.
The three seats will see Lok Sabha elections in several phases. Mainpuri will go for polls on Might 7 within the third part, Srinagar on Might 13, and Baramulla on Might 20. The counting of the votes might be performed on June 4.
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