Chandrashekhar Azad – The Dalit face who partook in upending BJP in UP during Lok Sabha Elections 2024

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Catch LIVE updates of Lok Sabha Election Result with Mint The Dalit face of UP crown had always been held by Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party. However, on Tuesday, Lok Sabha Election result 2024 counting showed that Chandrashekhar Azad received 51.19% of the votes in west UP seat dominated by Muslims and Dalits, BSP was placed fourth at 1.33%.Chandrashekhar Azad won from Nagina, a Scheduled Caste-reserved constituency of western UP, by a margin of over 1.51 lakh votes. Azad defeated Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) 's Om Kumar, whose vote share fell to 36%.The BSP candidate Surendra Pal Singh received only 1.33% of the votes, significantly lower than the Samajwadi Party's (SP's) Manoj Kumar, who had a vote share of 10.22%.

In the 2019 election, the BSP's Girish Chandra defeated the BJP's Yashwant Singh by a margin of 1.66 lakh votes."The BSP has no member in the Lok Sabha now. Azad will raise the issues of Dalits and Muslims in the House. That will help him rise as the leader of Dalits and certainly emerge as an alternative to Mayawati.

That will further weaken the BSP," Indian Express quoted a leader of the Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) or ASP.At 36, Chandrashekhar Azad, a law graduate, established the Bhim Army in 2015 to advocate for the advancement of Dalits and other marginalized communities. Azad had been arrested in 2017 after BJP leader and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led government slapped him with the controversial National Security Act (NSA). Azad was released after the Act was revoked in 2018.