Deoria district, which was the place of worship of the famous saint Devraha Baba, is now a stronghold of BJP. congress had won this seat in the lok sabha elections held in 1952. After this, congress candidates won from here in the years 1971 and 1980. In the 10 lok sabha elections held so far, bjp has won consecutively in the years 2014 and 2019. In the 2019 lok sabha elections, BJP's Ramapati Tripathi got 57.95 percent votes. BSP-SP alliance candidate Binod Kumar jaiswal got 33 percent votes. The deposits of 9 candidates including congress were confiscated. Talking about caste equations, this seat is considered upper caste dominated. The highest number of Brahmins in this is 27 percent.
Scheduled caste people are 14 percent, minorities 12 percent, Yadav 8 percent, Vaishya 8 percent, Sainthwar 6 percent, Kurmi 5 percent, kshatriya 5 percent, Kayastha 4 percent, Rajbhar 4 percent, Nishad 3 percent. The other 4 percent are voters. It is evident from the caste equations that bjp is in a strong position here.
Caste equation as per BJP's wish in Fatehpur Sikri
This Fatehpur Sikri lok sabha was formed after the delimitation of 2008. The first lok sabha elections were held in 2009 in which BSP won. bjp has registered consecutive victories in 2014 and 2019. In the 2019 elections, BJP's Rajkumar Chahar defeated SP-BSP candidate Shri Bhagwan Sharma on this seat. congress candidate raj babbar was at third place. If we pay attention to the caste equations, there are more than 3 lakh Kshatriyas, around 2.50 lakh Brahmins, 1.90 lakh Jats, 1.85 lakh Lodhis, 1.40 lakh Jatavs, 1.25 lakh Kushwahas, 75 thousand Muslims and 70 Vaishyas. You can understand how much help Samajwadi party will be able to get on the seat from caste equations.
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