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Hamirpur, 23 April (HS). The leaders of the Lodhi community continued to dominate the Hamirpur-Mahoba parliamentary seat for many decades. In the last 17 Lok Sabha elections, Brahmins captured the seat here five times. At the same time, people from backward castes have hoisted the flag of victory six times. This time, the caste equations are changing rapidly due to the new face coming from Lodhi caste in the electoral battle.
Once upon a time, only people from the Brahmin community were elected to the Hamirpur-Mahoba parliamentary seat, but due to the worsening of caste equations in the 1967 elections, this seat was captured by a saint from the Lodhi community. In the elections of 1952, Congress had hoisted the flag of victory across the country. Mannu Lal Dwivedi from Congress had won this seat. He won the seat again in the 1957 elections, while in 1962 also Mannu Lal Dwivedi had scored a hat-trick on this seat. In the year 1967, for the first time in the Lok Sabha elections, Swami Brahmanand from Bharatiya Jan Sangh had come into the electoral battle, who became MP when the Lodhi fraternity united. Not only this, Swamy left the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in the 1991 elections and contested the elections on a Congress ticket and again hoisted the flag of victory on this seat.
However, in the 1977 Lok Sabha elections, Swamy was defeated by BKD candidate Tej Pratap Singh. It was from here that people from the Lodhi community started becoming respectable on this seat. MPs from the Kshatriya community have been elected from this seat five times. This time BJP has fielded Pushpendra Singh Chandel for the third time. The alliance of SP and Congress has placed its bet on Ajendra Lodhi. In the Rath and Charkhari assembly constituency of the parliamentary constituency, there are more than 12 percent Lodhi and 6.66 percent Yadav caste voters, and Ajendra Lodhi is now busy in giving momentum to the cycle to win them over to his side. In this parliamentary constituency, Brahmin voters are 10.33, Vaishya is 2.66, Thakur is 12.85 and Scheduled Caste is 22.64 percent.
People of Pandit community had captured the seat five times.
So far, seventeen Lok Sabha elections have been held in Hamirpur-Mahoba parliamentary constituency, in which five times people from the Brahmin community became MPs. From 1952 to 1962, people from Brahmin caste became MP from this seat three times, while Vishwanath Sharma became MP in the 1991 elections. He came to the election field for the first time on BJP ticket and got the mandate in the elections on the issue of Ram Mandir. After this, in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Rajnarayan Budholia tried his luck on SP ticket and became MP for the first time. Rajnarayan Budhauliya belonged to the Brahmin caste.
Till now people have hoisted the flag of victory from backward six times.
Since the beginning, the maximum number of people from the Lodhi community have been elected as MPs from the Hamirpur-Mahoba parliamentary seat of the Lok Sabha. In 1967, Keswami Brahmanand of Lodhi community (backward caste) became MP, while in 1980, Dungar Singh Lodhi was elected MP from this seat. In the 1984 Lok Sabha elections also, Swami Prasad Singh Lodhi became MP in the game of caste equations. Gangacharan Rajput became MP from Lodhi community for the third time in the elections of 1989. He also became MP in 1996 and 1998. In the Lok Sabha elections held from 1967 to 1999, people of Lodhi community ruled this seat six times.
This time the equations are changing with the new face from Lodhi caste.
In the elections of the eighteenth Lok Sabha, Ajendra Singh Rajput from Lodhi community is once again trying his luck for the first time. These are the alliance candidates of Congress and SP whose entry into the election fray is now changing the caste equations rapidly. Current MP Pushpendra Singh Chandel is trying hard to win the election for the third time from Hamirpur-Mahoba-Tindwari seat, while the candidates are trying hard to settle the electoral equation in each other's stronghold. Bahujan Samaj Party has not yet opened its cards for this seat due to which disappointment is being seen among the party workers.