Rae Bareli Parliamentary Constituency is one of 80 Lok Sabha Constituency in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is known as the support of the INC (Indian National Congress). BJP is working on a modern scheme to win half of 144 parliamentary (Lok Sabha) constituency seats which he did not win in recent elections. In the 2019 General Election, the party had achieved 21 more seats extra than it achieved in 2014. The idea behind the scheme was to win 144 seats. If the party lost some states, it would make up for the shortage by winning new seats.
B L Santosh set the scheme in motion when he gave a presentation of 15 pages which listed the 144 Lok Sabha seats for the next General Election. It also includes the main constituencies gripped by the opposition, such as Rae Bareli and Manipuri of Uttar Pradesh. Maharashtra’s Baramati, West Bengal’s Jadavpur, Telangana’s Mahbubnagar and Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara. The strategy requires the participation of senior Union Ministers, including their continue in constituencies with an information data plan to take the capital of the situation, making of data on voter’s profile and matter and guide the party core at the low level.
Earlier Election of Rae Bareli Parliamentary Constituency
General Election 2014
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +-% |
INC | Sonia Gandhi | 526,434 | 63.80 | -8.43 |
BJP | Ajay Agarwal | 1,73,721 | 21.05 | +17.23 |
BSP | Pravesh Singh | 63,633 | 7.71 | -8.69 |
AAP | Archana Srivastava | 10,383 | 1.26 | N/A |
IND | Shakil Ahamad | 7,914 | 0.96 | N/A |
NOTA | None of the above | 5,409 | 0.66 | N/A |
Majority | 3,52,713 | 42.75 | -13.08 | |
Turnout | 8,25,142 | 51.73 | +3.40 | |
Swing | -8.43 |
General Election 2019 : The Rough Contest
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +-% |
INC | Sonia gandhi | 534,918 | 55.80 | -8.00 |
BJP | Dinesh pratap singh | 367,740 | 38.36 | +17.31 |
NOTA | None of the above | 10,252 | 1.07 | +0.41 |
ABP(D) | Ashok pratap maurya | 9,459 | 0.99 | +0.99 |
Majority | 1,67,178 | 17.44 | -25.39 | |
Turnout | 9,59,022 | 56.34 | +4.61 | |
INC hold | Swing | -8.00 |
Sonia Gandhi : Strength of Indian National Congress
Born on December 9 1946, Sonia Gandhi is the President of INC, the Indian National Congress. She is an Indian Politician. She took over as the party’s leader in 1998 and remained until 2017, in 1998, which is seven year murder of Rajiv Gandhi. He was her husband and former Prime Minister of India. She returned to the post in 2019. She took birth in a small village called Vicenza in Italy. She was raised in a Roman Catholic Family. After completing her studies in Primary school, she went for languages at Cambridge University, England. She met Rajiv Gandhi there and hitched to him in 1968.
She came to India and started living with her mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi. She was, at that time, the Prime Minister of India. After her husband’s assassination, she was asked to lead the Congress party by the Congress leaders. But she refused. Then she joined the party in 1997. She was nominated for the party’s President in the following year. She was appointed over Jitendra Prasada.
She held on Rae Bareli in the 2014 General Election. When Rahul Gandhi looked forward to taking over as Congress President, CPI leader Sitaram Yechury pulled Sonia over Rahul, calling that the glue that binds the antagonism. On December 16,2017, Rahul Gandhi took over the party as the 49th Congress President.
When the First Election Took Place in Rae Bareli?
The first General Election of Rae Bareli Parliamentary Constituency was held in 1957, where winner Feroze Gandhi of the Indian National Congress won 162,595 votes. Defeated Kishore (IND) with 133,342 votes. By poll of 1960 was 104,840 votes of R P Singh of Indian National Congress. And 62,809 votes of N B Singh (JS). The 1971 party Indian National Congress won 183 309 votes in the General Election. And SSP Raj Narayan won 71,499 votes. While the Revolutionary Socialist Party of India, Rameshwar Dutta Manav, won 4,839 votes. The independent swami Adwaita won 16,627 votes of 6.02%
Listing Of Member’s Of Rae Bareli Parliamentary Constituency
Election | Member | Party |
1952, 4 candidates elected | B N Kureel, Feroze Gandhi, Viswambhar Dayal, Swami Ramanand | All from Indian National Congress |
1957, 2 candidates elected | Baiz Nath, Kureel Feroze Gandhi (died in 1960) | Both from Congress |
1960 | R P Singh (by poll to replace Feroze Gandhi) | Indian National Congress |
1962 | R P Singh | Indian National Congress |
1967 | Indira Gandhi | Indian National Congress |
1971 | Indira Gandhi | Indian National Congress |
1977 | Raj Narain | Janata Party |
1980 | Indira Gandhi retained Medak seat | Indian national congress |
1980 (By poll) | Arun Nehru | Indian National Congress |
1984 | Sheila Kaul | Indian National Congress |
1989 | Sheila Kaul | Indian National Congress |
1991 | Sheila Kaul | Indian National Congress |
1996 | Ashok Singh | Bhartiya Janata Party |
1998 | Ashok Singh | Bhartiya Janata Party |
1999 | Satish Sharma | Indian National Congress |
2004 | Sonia Gandhi resigned on a technicality | Indian National Congress |
2006 by poll | Sonia Gandhi re-elected | Indian National Congress |
2009 | Sonia Gandhi | Indian National congress |
2014 | Sonia Gandhi | Indian National Congress |
2019 | Sonia Gandhi | Indian National Congress |
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