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Lok Sabha elections 2024: The poll race heats up in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh
Updated On: 17 March, 2024 07:18 AM IST | Lucknow | Agencies
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Security personnel speak with locals as they patrol in a village, ahead of the announcement of LS elections, in Murshidabad on Saturday. PIC/PTI
Rajasthan accounts for 25 seats in the Lok Sabha and in the past two elections they have been held by the B JP. The most watched seats in the state will be Jodhpur where both Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot have a stake in this constituency. The former has won Jodhpur twice, the last time after defeating Gehlot’s son Vaibhav Gehlot by a margin of 2.74 lakh votes.
Gehlot`s own assembly segment too falls within this parliamentary constituency. In Kota-Bundi the Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla has won the last two Lok Sabha elections from this constituency. In 2019, his winning margin was 2.79 lakh votes. The Jat-dominated Nagaur seat is set to witness a keen contest with the BJP fielding former Congress MP Jyoti Mirdha, the granddaughter of Congress stalwart Nathuram Mirdha, who represented the constituency six times. The Congress is said to be in touch with former BJP ally, Rashtriya Loktantrik Party leader and current MLA Hanuman Beniwal for an electoral understanding.
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