India News: While his astrologer insisted, he would be the MP again, his party (BSP) chose to give Shrikala Reddy, wife of gangster-turned-politician Dhananjay Si.
The ruling BJP has fielded Kripashankar Singh, the former home minister of Maharashtra, from the seat against Samajwadi Party candidate Babu Singh Kushwaha, who was a minister in the BSP government.
Having won four Lok Sabha seats in the last parliamentary elections out of the constituencies going to polls in the sixth phase in Uttar Pradesh on May 25, Bahujan Samaj Party is facing the biggest threat from its own sitting MPs who deserted the party to contest the election from other political
The seemingly changed political stances of two strongmen of UP politics assume importance, especially when it comes to Pratapgarh and Jaunpur, two Lok Sabha seats that will have voting in the sixth phase of the polls on May 25