Sultanpur: Stage set for tough fight between BJP, SP, BSP; Maneka Gandhi eyes bigger victory margin

Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 20 : The Sultanpur Lok Sabha constituency is set to witness a tough triangular fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party (SP), and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
The Sultanpur seat comprises five Assembly segments including Isauli, Sultanpur, Sadar, Lambhua, Kadipur. The constituency is a General seat.
The voting will take place in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on May 25. The counting of the votes will be held on June 4.
The incumbent BJP candidate is Maneka Gandhi, SP has given a ticket to Rambhual Nishad replacing Bheem Nishad, and BSP has fielded Udraj Verma.
Since Independence, Sultanpur has seen MPs from several parties and no single party has had an outright dominance on the seat. Congress has won eight times in Sultanpur, while BSP has won twice and BJP has secured victory four times.
Maneka is also the sitting MP from the Sultanpur seat. The BJP has again chosen to go with her in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Maneka is the sitting MP from the Sultanpur seat. In the 2019 general election, Maneka Sanjay Gandhi from BJP won the seat with a margin of 14,526 votes.
BJP's Maneka Gandhi got 459,196 votes with 45.9 per cent while Bahujan Samaj Party candidate, Chandra Bhadra Singh got 4,44,670 votes with 44.5.
While Maneka is confident and said she has not worked on an analysis of the number of seats that the BJP will win in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
"I have not done any analysis of UP, during elections, I keep my eyes on Sultanpur only, and we will succeed here... We have tried many things for women, and the houses the PM has given greatly benefit them. The opposition tried to bring caste and religion but its impact is almost nil here," said Maneka while talking to ANI.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Feroze Varun Gandhi from BJP won the seat and polled 410,348 votes with a vote share of 42.5 per cent. BSP candidate Pawan Pandey got 231,446 votes (24.0 per cent)
SP candidate Rambhual was initially in the BSP and served as a minister in the Mayawati government. He switched to the SP later and contested polls from various constituencies.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rambhual Nishad was the runner-up from Gorakhpur who lost by 301664 votes from BJP's candidate Ravindra Shyamnarayan Shukla Alias Ravi Kishan.
The two-time MLA Nishad represented the Kaudiram Assembly constituency (now Gorakhpur rural) as a two-time Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).
The BJP is contesting the elections in Uttar Pradesh in alliance with the local parties while Congress and Samajwadi Party are united in the fight as part of the INDIA bloc and BSP is going solo in the elections.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the winner by securing the majority of seats available. Of 80 seats, the BJP won 62, followed by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) with 10 seats, the Samajwadi Party (SP) with 5 seats, and the Apna Dal with 2 seats.