Six out of 10 Assembly seats in Amethi and Rae Bareli parliamentary constituencies that are long considered Congress strongholds have gone to the BJP while two went to the Samajwadi Party.
It was a complete washout for the Congress in Rahul’s Amethi Lok Sabha constituency, comprising Assembly seats of Amethi, Tiloi, Jagdishpur, Gauriganj and Salon. The party managed to win two of the five assembly constituencies of Sonia Gandhi’s Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat — Rae Bareli and Harchandpur — while losing Sareni, Bachhrawan and Unchahar.
In Rahul’s constituency, the Congress managed to come in at second spot in Jagdishpur, Gauriganj and Salon, was beaten to third spot in Tiloi and came in a miserable fourth in Amethi itself. In Sonia’s constituency, the party came in at No.2 in Bachhrawan, No.3 in Sareni and a distant fourth in Unchahar.
In the prestigious Amethi constituency, the erstwhile “queen” of the royal family Garima Singh of the BJP defeated SP’s rape-accused absconding Minister Gaytri Prasad Prajapati. Congress candidate Ameeta Singh, the current “queen” and wife of senior leader Sanjay Singh, came in a poor fourth behind the BSP candidate.
This post was published on March 12, 2017 6:58 pm