Amethi VidhanSabha Result: Samajwadi Party candidate Maharaji Devi has won from Amethi assembly by defeating BJP candidate Sanjay Singh. It was one of the high-profile seats in the UP assembly elections. Maharaji Devi is the wife of Gayatri Prajapati, a former SP leader and serving life sentence in jail.
Maharaji Devi won with sympathy wave?
Gayatri Prajapati is also facing investigation in the mining scam case. In such a situation, BJP criticized the SP for giving ticket to Maharaji Devi. Although Mahajari Devi has given her answer to BJP winning this seat. The sympathy wave of people towards her husband Gayatri Prajapati, who is in jail, is being told behind the victory of Mahajari Devi.
BJP had given ticket to Sanjay Singh from Amethi assembly seat. Sanjay Singh is the ‘King’ of Amethi royal family and he has been MLA and MP from this seat many times. Sanjay Singh was seen as close to the Gandhi family. However, in 2019, he resigned from the Congress party and its Rajya Sabha membership and joined the BJP. Along with Sanjay Singh, his second wife Amita Singh also left the Congress and joined the BJP. Amita Singh has also been MLA from Amethi several times and a minister in the UP government.
maths changed in 2017
Sanjay Singh and his wife Amita Singh were in Congress at the time of 2017 assembly elections. Congress had given ticket to Amita Singh from Amethi. At the same time, BJP put in front of him by giving ticket to Garima Singh, Sanjay’s first wife and known as Badi Rani in Amethi. In the battle of both the queens, the elder queen won and this seat went to BJP’s account. However, after the arrival of Sanjay Singh in the BJP, in the 2022 assembly elections, the BJP decided to make ‘Raja’ Sanjay Singh the candidate by cutting the ticket of Garima Singh.
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Congress was at number three in its stronghold
Amethi has long been seen as a Congress stronghold. Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have all contested from Amethi and went to Parliament after winning from here. However, in this assembly election, Congress candidate Ashish Shukla, standing from here, came third far from the fight.
Amethi assembly seat result
SP: Maharaji Devi, 66598 votes
BJP: Dr. Sanjay Singh, 56002 votes
Congress: Ashish Shukla, 11816 votes
BSP: Ragini Tiwari, 6641 votes
Voting was held in Amethi in the fifth phase on February 27. Here 54.2 percent voters exercised their franchise. In the 2017 assembly elections, 56.14 percent of the voters had cast their votes. There are 3,33,944 voters here.
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