New Delhi. Congress candidate Ujjwal Raman Singh has won the Allahabad parliamentary seat in Uttar Pradesh, ending a 40-year-long drought. The last time Congress won this seat was in 1984. Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan had won from this seat. According to the election results declared on Tuesday, Congress candidate Ujjwal Raman Singh defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Neeraj Tripathi by 58,795 votes.
Ujjwal Raman got a total of 4,62,145 votes on Allahabad seat, while Neeraj Tripathi got 4,03,350 votes. Senior Congress leader Baba Abhay Awasthi said that Amitabh Bachchan had won from Allahabad seat in 1984. Congress has won from here after forty years. Amitabh Bachchan defeated former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna by about 1.5 lakh votes. Before 1984, former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri had won the election from Allahabad seat in 1957 and 1962. After Shastri ji’s death in 1966, his son Harikishan Shastri won the 1967 election from here.
Awasthi said that after 1984, many big leaders like Anil Shastri, Kamla Bahuguna, Satya Prakash Malviya contested elections from this seat on Congress ticket, but lost. This seat was with BJP since the Modi government came to power in 2014. Shyama Charan Gupta from BJP in 2014 and Rita Bahuguna Joshi in 2019 won the Allahabad seat. 51-year-old Ujjwal Raman Singh, son of Samajwadi Party’s stalwart leader Revati Raman Singh, has been an MLA from Karchana seat of Prayagraj district and before this election he was in SP. Ujjwal Raman Singh left SP and joined Congress and Congress made him its candidate from here.
On the other hand, Neeraj Tripathi, son of BJP veteran leader and former West Bengal Governor late Keshari Nath Tripathi, was never active in politics before this election. However, after being made a candidate by the BJP, Neeraj campaigned vigorously, but he could not gain the trust of the public. Allahabad seat is in Prayagraj district and there are more than 18 lakh voters here, most of whom live in the rural areas of Yamunapar.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : June 4, 2024, 23:07 IST