Raj Babbar to fight from Fatehpur Sikri, four ex-MLAs join Congress

Agra | Sunday | 24th March, 2019

Summary:

However, after delimitation in 2008, the Agra Lok Sabha seat became a reserved one.In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Babbar lost in Fatehpur Sikri to the BSP’s Seema Upadhyay by a margin of 9,936 votes. Babbar got re-elected to the Lok Sabha from Firozabad in the by-elections held in 2009 by defeating former CM Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav. However, he lost the last Lok Sabha polls to BJP’s Gen VK Singh from Ghaziabad.According to political observers, in the absence of any strong opposition, Babbar stands a chance of winning from Fatehpur Sikri. She is the founder of Bahujan Samyak Sangathan and was selected in civil services at the age of 22. While in 1999 he defeated BJP’s Bhagwan Shankar Rawat by 112,982 votes, in 2004 he won against BJP’s Murari Lal Fatehpuria..