Lucknow: Mayor Sushma Kharkwal in the ex-servicemen conference organized at her Mayor’s Camp Office, Bala Kadar Road, appealed to all the soldiers who dedicated their all for the defense of India, the progress of Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency that the Defense Minister of the country Rajnath Singh be once against picked from Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency and Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency for the third consecutive time with a huge majority.
The Mayor said in her address that under the government of Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh, all the borders of the country are safe, today the Indian Army is one of the most modern armies, the vision of a safe India which we all once thought about, today the vision of a secure India has come true due to the indomitable bravery of our forces under his leadership.
Lucknow, the city of ‘Nawabs’, is once again in the limelight for the key electoral contest between BJP’s star candidate and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other contenders of the INDIA bloc and the BSP. Though the fight from the capital city of Uttar Pradesh has always been one-sided with the stakes in favour of the saffron party, one can hope for surprises this time.
Singh, aiming for a hat-trick from the ‘Karambhoomi’ of BJP stalwart and former prime minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is facing local leader Ravidas Mehrotra of the Samajwadi Party (SP). The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has fielded Sarwar Ali from the seat.
Polling for the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat will be held in the fifth phase on May 20.
This is for the first time in the last three decades that opposition parties, including the SP, BSP and Congress, have not placed their bets on any outsider or Bollywood star from the constituency.
BJP has been continuously winning from Lucknow parliamentary constituency from 1991 to 2019.
