Does Varun Gandhi plan to challenge Pilibhit as independent? – Firstpost

Like the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party has not yet announced its candidate for the siege of Pilibhit Lok Sabha in the Uttar Pradesh, the buzz has developed if the party would renovate its deputy in exercise of the constituency, Varun Gandhi. In the midst of speculation, his spokesperson said on Wednesday March 20 that the Gandhi Scion would be the face of the Pilibhit BJP for the next Lok Sabha elections.

Pilibhit is one of the high -level seats in the Uttar Pradesh which go to the first phase of April 19. All eyes are on the BJP and Varun Gandhi now.

Let’s take a closer look.

Brief history of the Pilibhit LS headquarters

Pilibhit, a key district in the Uttar Pradesh, was a bastion of “the other” Gandhi family for decades. Maneka Gandhi, the current deputy for the BJP of Sultanpur, won the Pilibhit Lok Sabha headquarters in 1989 on a ticket Janata Dal.

Since then, she and her son, Varun, have maintained a mainly rural siege. Maneka lost the siege of Pilibhit in 1991, however, she won it in 1996 as a candidate for Janata Dal, noted Indian Express.

The former Minister of the Union became a deputy for Pilibhit twice as a independent in 1998 and 1999. She put the seat in the Lok Sabha polls in 2004 on a BJP ticket.

In 2009, Varun was operated by the BJP of the Pilibhit district, marking its electoral debut. He won the siege with a margin of more than two Lakh votes.

Maneka returned to fight Pilibhit in 2014, beating the candidate of the Samajwadi (SP) party, Budhsen Verma, by more than three Lakh Votes.

The BJP again aligned Varun in 2019 of Pilibhit, which siege in bag with a margin of almost 2.5 Lakh votes.

Does BJP empty Varun Gandhi?

The BJP announced the candidates for 51 of the 80 seats in Lok Sabha in the Uttar Pradesh. The delay in the candidates’ declaration for 24 seats, including Pilibhit and Sultanpur, added to rumors.

The BJP allies in Uttar Pradesh – Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), APNA Dal (S) and OP Rajbhar (SBSP) by Rashtriya Lok (RLD), Anupriya Patel (SBHA) – will challenge the five seats of Sabha Lok Sabha.

There is a strong buzz that the BJP may not align Varun Gandhi from Pilibhit this time.

According to a India today Report, all the leaders of the BJP state unit were against giving a ticket to the Gandhi Scion at the meeting of the main party committee.

Varun has been expressed against the Center and the Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath in some of their policies in recent years. This can go against him while the Saffron Party chooses his candidate for the siege of Pilibhit.

In particular, the deputy of Pilibhit, 43 years old, has refrained from making remarks against one or the other government since last December, noted Livemint.

In February, he congratulated the central government led by Narendra Modi for conferring the Bharat Ratna on the former Prime Ministers CHAPHARY Charan Singh and the PV Narasimha Rao, as well as the agricultural scientist Ms. Swaminathan.

Recently, he shared the DIAs with the local leaders of the BJP and even praised Prime Minister Modi for development work in Pilibhit.

“In recent years, he (Varun) has been very critical of the Yogi and Modi governments, but suddenly, this year, he has attenuated (the criticism) and republished Prime Minister Modi’s tweet on the 2024 and elections and elections and Arifying him also for having developed development to work in his constituency. All this has not gone unnoticed, ”said a senior manager of the Central BJP Footprint Earlier this month.

The sources said The New Indian Express (TNIE) That the BJP Top Brass is likely to keep Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur. But his son, Varun, could feel the heat, given the rule “One Family, One Ticket” of the BJP.

According to reports, the BJP could align the Minister of PWD Jitin Prasad or the Minister of State, the development of sugar cane and Sanjay Singh Gangwar of the Sanjay Singh of the Pilibhit Lok Sabha headquarters.

“However, the BJP would not want to risk this, given the popularity of Varun in the siege and the fact that it won the last elections by more than two Lakh Votes,” said a Safran party leader Lively under cover of anonymity.

Varun Gandhi is he going solo?

Now there are rumors that Varun could fight the Pilibhit Lok Sabha polls as an independent candidate if the BJP refuses a ticket to him.

On Wednesday, its representatives bought four series of appointments – two in Hindi and the others in English – to challenge the next Lok Sabha surveys, reported the news agency PTI.

The deputy of Pilibhit previously denied having fought from Amethi, another high-level seat in the Uttar Pradesh, which was a bastion of the Nehru-Gandhi family for decades until 2019, when the Minister of the Union Smriti Irani beat the cousin of Varun, the head of the Congress Rahul Gandhi, of the headquarters.

“(Varun) Gandhi will be the candidate of the BJP of this seat (Pilibhit in the Uttar Pradesh),” said the deputy spokesman. PTI.

Speculations have increased further after the president of the Samajwadi (SP) party Akhilesh Yadav, recently suggested that his party would not be opposed to giving a ticket to Varun Gandhi if the BJP dropped him. “Our organization would decide on the decision to be made on this subject,” said the old CM of the Uttar Pradesh.

However, the SP appointed former Minister Bhagwat Saran Gangwar as his candidate for Pilibhit’s siege in his sixth list published late last night.

What will be the fate of Varun Gandhi? The suspense will be finished once the BJP declares its list of remaining candidates.

With agency entries