Varanasi: The Congress, who has opposed the 2017 Assembly election in the Alliance with the Sawadi Party, has become the first political party to serve his candidate, Praveen Kumar Singh, from Azamgarh in the 2022 election.
Even though Congress has deployed a young face of the party president and the Azamgarh District Politics here feels it will be a difficult task for him to make an impact on the fort fortress.
The reason: Azamgarh assembly segment has become a fort fortress since 1996 and was represented by Durga Prasad Yadav for five times in a row.
In addition, the Azamgarh parliamentary seat has also been represented by SP for the last two terms in a row, including SP Patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and the Chief Akhilesh Yadav Party since 2014.
The Azamgarh parliamentary constituency has five assembly segments, including Gopalpur, Sagri, Mubarakpur, Azamgarh and Mehnagar (SC).
Except for Sagri, which was taken by Bandana Singh BSP in 2017, all other seats represented by SP.
According to the record, although the Azamgarh parliamentary seat has become the Congress fortress at first for five consecutive general elections from 1952 to 1971, it was unable to open his account after 1984.
From 1989 and so on, Azamgarh Lokha’s seat was represented by various political parties, including BSP (1989, 1998, 2004, 2008), Janata Dal (1991), SP (1996, 1999, 2014, 2019) and BJP (2009).
In such a situation, the Grand Party Congress, who can win the Azamgarh assembly seat only twice in 1977 and 1980, had to play on difficult grass in the assembly selection of 2022.
Before 1996, this chair has shown mixed characteristics by choosing candidates different, including the Socialist Praja (1957 & 1962), Socialist Party Samyukta (1967 & 1969), Bharatiya Kranti Dal (1974), Congress (1977 & 1980), Independent (1985), Janata Dal (1989 & 1991), and BSP (1993).
SP caught a chair in 1996, and has been represented by Durga Prasad Yadav since then.
However, Yadav has also won seats in the past as independent in 1985 and on Janata Dal tickets in 1989 and 1991.
In the last election in 2017, he had defeated BJP’s Akhilesh with a margin of 26,262 votes.