Kairana Lok Sabha constituency: Candidates for 2019 LS poll, past results, all updates

Kairana Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, is currently held by the RLD’s Tabassum Hasan who won the seat for the first time in 2018 by-elections by defeating BJP's Mriganka Singh by 44,618 votes. The seat was earlier held by Mriganka Singh's father Hukum Singh. 

The election result was considered significant as Tabassum was the joint candidate of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance and was also supported by the Congress. The opposition projected the Kairana victory as a sign that it could take on the BJP in the general election if it fielded common candidates. This was the experiment by SP-BSP-RLD which has now evolved into a state-wide alliance of the three parties.

The BJP has not given the ticket to Mriganka Singh, who lost the bye-elections in May last year. Instead, the Bharatiya Janata Party has nominated Pradeep Chaudhary, a two-time MLA. Congress' Harendra Singh Malik is also in the fray. 

Kairana was at the centre of a huge controversy when in 2017 Hukum Singh, the then sitting MP, alleged exodus of Hindus due to atrocities by criminals from particular communities. 

Kairana parliamentary constituency comprises of five Vidhan Sabha segments: Nakur, Gangoh, Kairana, Thana Bhawan and Shamli.

Tabassum Hasan, the sitting MP, had held the seat from 2009 to 2014 but was refused nomination by her party BSP. Before her, Amir Alam Khan and Anuradha Choudhary - both from RLD - won the seat in 1999 and 2004 respectively. 

UP is facing a three-pronged battle between the BJP, the Congress and BSP-SP-RLD alliance. Under the alliance's seat-sharing formula, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is contesting on 38 Lok Sabha seats of the total 80 seats, Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party on 37 seats and the Chaudhary Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on three seats. The alliance has left two for Congress' Sonia Gandhi (Raebareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi). 

The polling in Kairana will be held in first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 11. The results of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be declared on May 23.