Don’t miss the latest developments in business and finance.

image

Pilibhit Constituency

About Pilibhit Constituency

Facebook IconLinkedIN Icon

Pilibhit Constituency, UP

Located in the Terai region of Uttar Pradesh, Pilibhit houses a famous tiger reserve and is located near the Nepal border.
 
The Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat has been known as a Gandhi family seat but not the Congress one, in fact, it has repeatedly elected the Gandhis of BJP namely Maneka and Varun Gandhi. The mother-son duo broke ties with the Congress party after the death of Sanjay Gandhi and ever since have been actively targeting the Grand Old Party.
 
In 2019, Varun Gandhi won the Pilibhit LS seat by garnering over 59% of the total votes and defeated his nearest rival from the Samajwadi Party Hemraj Verma. This time, in 2024, Varun has been denied a ticket by the BJP as in the past five years, the 44-year-old politician has been quite vocal against the Saffron Party and his vocal criticism has been quite an embarrassment for the party's high command, especially during the infamous 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri case in which multiple protesting farmers were killed after being hit by the BJP MP Ajay Mishra Teni's son's car.
 
This time BJP has fielded Congress turncoat Jitin Prasad, who was once considered close to Rahul Gandhi, while SP has fielded Bhagwat Gangwar, a popular OBC leader of the region. The Bahujan Samaj Party has betted on Anis Ahmed Khan who has unsuccessfully contested from Pilibhit LS seat on multiple occasions.
 
Historically, Maneka Gandhi has been the most successful candidate from Pilibhit as she was from here six times, although on ticket of various parties, including as an independent candidate, starting from 1989 LS elections. It can clearly be said that Maneka has nurtured the constituency over the past few decades now. As far as parties are concerned, Congress and BJP have been most successful with both of them winning on four occasions each. In fact, since 1996, Pilibhit has chosen either Maneka or Varun as their Lok Sabha representative. Notably, Pilibhit is a BJP bastion as the party hasn't lost from here since 2004 but the credit ideally goes to the mother-son duo.
 
In the 2022 UP Assembly polls, BJP won four out of the five Assembly segments that come under the Pilibhit LS seat while SP won the remaining one.

Here are the latest news from Business Standard

Latest News

More than 80% of such traditional businesses blame dark stores of quick commerce companies: JP Morgan survey

Updated On: 19 Dec 2024 | 12:51 PM IST

Fairchem Organics shares rallied 12 per cent to Rs 1,307 on the BSE in Thursday's intra-day trade, extending its past three day's upward movement, in an otherwise weak market

Updated On: 19 Dec 2024 | 12:39 PM IST

Steady growth in the number of companies paying a sitting fee of Rs 100,000 or more per board meet

Updated On: 18 Dec 2024 | 5:53 PM IST

Sunni Central Waqf Board later formed the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation to build a new mosque on the land allotted by the state government in the Dhannipur area of the district

Updated On: 18 Dec 2024 | 3:29 PM IST

LLMs are advanced AI systems designed to understand and generate human language. They use deep learning techniques and are trained on massive amounts of text data

Updated On: 17 Dec 2024 | 5:19 PM IST

The Kalinga Warriors were on the back foot right from the start, as the hosts raced to an early lead within the first minute when Nguyen Thi Kim Yenfrom struck from a corner.

Updated On: 17 Dec 2024 | 4:45 PM IST

CCI approves US-based KKR's proposal to acquire stake in Rebel Foods

Updated On: 17 Dec 2024 | 4:42 PM IST

Priced at Rs 16,999 onwards, the Lava Blaze Duo 5G boasts a display on the rear, adjacent to the camera module, that supports camera previews, call notifications, music controls, and more

Updated On: 17 Dec 2024 | 12:56 PM IST

Income Tax Appellate Tribunal has ruled that cryptocurrencies are considered capital assets, clarifying how profits from crypto sales should be taxed. The ruling applies to transactions before 2022.

Updated On: 17 Dec 2024 | 11:55 AM IST

The United States topped the list with 11 billion attacks between October 2023 and September 2024: Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 Encrypted Attacks Report

Updated On: 16 Dec 2024 | 6:33 PM IST

This success comes as a relief for the industry after theatres in the country were faced with the challenge of few films working well at the box office

Updated On: 16 Dec 2024 | 3:10 PM IST

The Kalinga Warriors were on the back foot right from the start, as the hosts raced to an early lead within the first minute when Nguyen Thi Kim Yenfrom struck from a corner.

Updated On: 13 Dec 2024 | 11:57 AM IST

A half-point cut would be a security move to preempt any potential risks for the eurozone economy coming from the next US administration's potential economic policy choices

Updated On: 12 Dec 2024 | 5:29 PM IST

More vocational and technical training is available but over two-third of the working age population has received none

Updated On: 12 Dec 2024 | 4:25 PM IST

The 140 companies newly included in the so-called entity list are nearly all based in China but some are Chinese-owned businesses in Japan, South Korea and Singapore

Updated On: 12 Dec 2024 | 4:20 PM IST

In early days of war, Israel's leadership presented a unified front as it responded to Hamas attack, but as the war has dragged on and spread to Lebanon, key policy differences have emerged

Updated On: 12 Dec 2024 | 4:18 PM IST

Venugopal sought to know whether the rule was selectively applicable for references made by opposition party members

Updated On: 12 Dec 2024 | 4:16 PM IST

Shares of steel companies are trading higher by up to 5 per cent on the BSE in Tuesday's intra-day trade in an otherwise range bound market after steel imports in November' decreased by 28 per cent mo

Updated On: 12 Dec 2024 | 4:09 PM IST

At 10:59 AM, the BSE Metal index, the top gainer among sectoral indices, was up 1 per cent, as compared to the 0.09 per cent rise in the BSE Sensex

Updated On: 10 Dec 2024 | 2:54 PM IST