Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Will Brij Bhushan contest from UP's Kaiserganj? Ex-WFI chief says he's 'strong contender...'

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Lok Sabha elections from the Kaiserganj constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not announced its candidate from the Kaiserganj seat. “I am not a candidate right now.

But the BJP has no contest on the Kaiserganj Lok Sabha seat. Last time, I won the seat by more than 2 lakh votes. This time, the workers have given a slogan of 5 lakh votes," the sitting MP from Kaiserganj said as quoted by ANI. “If God has decided this, what can I do? But I am a strong contender, so I will contest 99.9 per cent, 0.1 per cent would remain.

Even if the party announced the candidate just an hour before, people would make me win," he said. In Uttar Pradesh, Kaiserganj will go to polls in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections, that is, May 20. Brij Bhushan secured 5,81,358 votes in the 2019 elections, and BSP's Chandradev Ram Yadav got over 3.19 lakh votes while Congress candidate Vinay Kumar Pandey got 3,7132 votes.