Kaushambi: A few days back, the Election Commission has announced the election of five states including UP. Assembly elections will be held in Uttar Pradesh in seven phases. Almost all the political parties are announcing their candidates. At the same time, sitting BJP MLA from Kaushambi, Sheetla Prasad Patel, even after being cut tickets in the UP assembly elections, celebrated by distributing laddoos to the people and bursting them with fire. Let us inform that from Kaushambi, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya will contest from Sirathu Assembly seat. MLA Sheetla Prasad Patel said that this seat of Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has been dedicated to him.
Sitla Prasad Patel, sitting MLA from Sirathu Assembly after Deputy Chief Minister Maurya was declared BJP candidate from Sirathu Assembly, said Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya was the seat from where he had won while contesting in 2012. It was the Deputy CM who made me MLA. Today he is happy that he has given this seat of Deputy CM to him. He said that he would work hard to get Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to win from here.
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Keshav Maurya became an MLA for the first time in the 2012 assembly elections.
Prior to this, Keshav Maurya was elected MLA for the first time from his home constituency Sirathu in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and BJP was successful in blooming lotus in this seat for the first time. Earlier this seat was continuously occupied by SP and BSP. In 2012, Keshav Prasad Maurya, the lone BJP MLA, was elected from the four districts of Allahabad division, Allahabad, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi and Fatehpur. In 2013, his fame spread across the state for leading the protest against the arrival of Christian missionary Peter Youngereen at Allahabad’s KP College and in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP fielded him from the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat in which he won by over 3 lakh votes. Become an MP by defeating your nearest rival, former Samajwadi Party MP Dharamraj Singh Patel.
3 lakh 65 thousand 153 voters in Sirathu
If we look at the caste equation of Sirathu Vidhan Sabha, there are about 45 percent voters of Scheduled Castes, 24 percent of voters from backward classes and about 32 percent of others. In this context, the decision of winning or losing this seat rests in the hands of the voters belonging to the Scheduled Castes. At present there are 3 lakh 65 thousand 153 total voters in Sirathu. In which male voters are 1 lakh 95 thousand 660 and female voters are 1 lakh 69 thousand 492. In 2012, after Keshav bloomed a lotus in Sirathu, it was captured by the SP in the 2014 by-elections, but in the 2017 assembly elections, it again came to the BJP. In the 2017 assembly elections, a total of 17 candidates were in the fray for Sirathu assembly seat in which BJP’s winning candidate Sheetla Prasad got 78621 votes, while SP’s Vachaspati got 52418 votes and BSP candidate Saidul Rab got 42782 votes. Were.