Lok Sabha elections 2024:Â The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Tuesday (February 20) declared its third record of 5 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. The Akhilesh Yadav get together has additionally revealed the candidate for the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat, at present represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Samajwadi Party has fielded Surendra Singh Patel (64) from Varanasi Lok Sabha seat.
Apart from Patel, the opposite candidates on the record are senior chief Shivpal Yadav from Budaun parliamentary constituency, Iqra Hasan from Kairana, Praveen Singh Aron from Bareilly and Ajendra Singh Rajput from Hamirpur.Â
Shivpal Yadav, the uncle of get together chief Akhilesh Yadav, is an MLA from the Jaswantnagar meeting constituency in Etawah district. Earlier, in its first record, the get together had fielded Dharmendra Yadav, the son of get together founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s youthful brother Abhay Ram Yadav, from Budaun.
With this record, the Samajwadi Party has up to now declared the names of 31 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in UP.
Who is Surendra Singh Patel?
Patel, the candidate nominated for the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat, has a political profession spanning over 4 a long time. He hails from Rajatalab in the Rohania meeting constituency of Varanasi.
Surendra Singh Patel beforehand served because the Member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly representing the Sevapuri meeting constituency from 2012 to 2017. During his tenure, he held the place of Minister of State for Public Works and Irrigation in the Akhilesh Yadav-led authorities.
Sevapuri is one of many 403 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Constituencies that comes below the Varanasi district. In 2022, Neelratan Singh Patel of the Bharatiya Janata Party received the seat by defeating Surendra Singh Patel of the Samajwadi Party with a margin of 22531 votes.Â
His major occupation is agriculture. Patel has served as a minister in the Samajwadi Party authorities on two events. Prior to his affiliation with the SP, he held a ministerial place as an impartial cost minister in the Bahujan Samaj Party authorities. Known for his amiable persona, Patel enjoys a definite id in the area. In the month of January, SP had made him in-charge of Varanasi Lok Sabha seat.
What occurred in 2019 Lok Sabha elections?
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, PM Narendra Modi received the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 4,79,505 votes by defeating Shalini Yadav of the Samajwadi Party. PM Narendra Modi polled 6,74,664 votes, whereas his nearest rival Samajwadi Party candidate polled 1,95,159 votes.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Modi secured a formidable 56.37 per cent vote share, marking a big improve of 25.85 share factors in favor of the BJP in comparison with the 2009 elections. In 2009, get together veteran Murali Manohar Joshi had received with a vote share of 30.5 per cent.
Shalini Yadav is the daughter-in-law of Shyamlal Yadav, who was elected as an MP from Varanasi in 1984.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Narendar Modi had defeated Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal by a margin of three.37 lakh votes in Varanasi. Kejriwal, who had contested as AAP nominee in 2014, managed to get 2 lakh votes.
