Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya of UP has not fielded his candidate on Pratapgarh and Kaushambi Lok Sabha seats this time and has not supported any other party. He gave his supporters a free hand and asked them to vote according to their own will. Before the last phase of voting, Raja Bhaiya has made a big statement. He has said that Modi ji is going to form the government.
Raja Bhaiya, who reached Deoghar in Jharkhand, met BJP MP Nishikant Dubey. Meanwhile, he said, “We have not fielded any candidate in the Lok Sabha. We have not supported any party. We have left our workers free. Everyone is voting according to their own will. We are not returning to the country but Modi ji is going to form the government.”
Voting has been done on Raj Bhaiya's two seats in UP, Kaushambi and Pratapgarh. Earlier it was believed that he would field candidates from his party on these seats but it did not happen. After this he asked his workers to vote according to their wish. However, later SP candidate from Kaushambi Pushpendra Saroj claimed that he has already got the blessings of Raja Bhaiya. Raja Bhaiya is angry with BJP MP and candidate from Kaushambi Vinod Sonkar.
Sangam Lal Patel is the BJP candidate from Pratapgarh seat while SP has fielded SP Singh Patel. Slogans of democracy-socialism were also raised in Akhilesh Yadav's Pratapgarh rally. Recently, a video of Sangam Lal also surfaced in which he was crying on the stage and saying that some people are opposing me because I come from the Teli community. He said that here in the stronghold of kings, a Kshatriya can become an MP, but no Teli can become an MP. He said that I am being opposed because I belong to the Teli community. Apart from this, his party S leader Anupriya Patel, who came to campaign in support of the BJP candidate, also targeted Raja Bhaiya. She said, 'Now in democracy, a king is not born from the womb of a queen. Now a king is born from the button of EVM. The self-proclaimed king considers Kunda as his estate. Now you have a very big and golden opportunity to break his illusion. Raja Bhaiya also turned on this issue.
Raja Bhaiya had formed the Jansatta Dal in 2018
Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya formed the Jansatta Dal Loktantrik in the year 2018. After which in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the party fielded candidates on the first two seats. Raja Bhaiya has fielded former MP Akshay Pratap Singh Gopalji from Pratapgarh and former MP Shailendra Kumar from Kaushambi seat. However, Akshay Pratap finished fourth and Shailendra Kumar third. After this, in the 2022 assembly elections, the party fielded candidates on 24 seats, in which Kunda and Babaganj seats were won. Raja Bhaiya became MLA from Kunda for the seventh time and Vinod Saroj from Babaganj seat for the fourth time.
Voting on 13 seats in the last phase in UP
Voting will be held on 13 seats in UP in the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections. These seats include Ghosi, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Bansgaon, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur and Robertsganj. In the 2019 elections, BJP could not win only two of these seats, Ghosi and Ghazipur.