Patna Sahib parliamentary constituency which comprises the area of the capital city of Patna and rural areas along the Gangetic plain is one of the most high-profile seats in Bihar in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The main contest on this seat is between NDA and Grand Alliance candidates. Patna Sahib and seven other constituencies will go to the polls in the seventh phase of Lok Sabha elections on 1st June. Around 22 lakh voters will decide the electoral fate of 17 candidates. This parliamentary constituency comprises six assembly seats out of which four are won by BJP and two are represented by the RJD.
Akashvani’s correspondent reports that BJP has fielded former Union Minister and sitting MP Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib parliamentary constituency. He is trying his best to clinch this seat consecutive second time with a bigger margin than 2019 Lok Sabha elections. From Grand Alliance, Anshul Avijit is Congress candidate who is trying his luck for the first time in electoral politics. He is the son of former Lok Sabha speaker Meira Kumar and grandson of the legendary leader Babu Jagjivan Ram.
Before delimitation, the Patna Sahib seat was known as the Patna parliamentary constituency and it came up with a new nomenclature in 2008. From 1957 to 2004 this Lok Sabha seat was represented by the Congress party three times, BJP and CPI clinched this seat two times each. Congress party has never been successful in winning this seat after 1984. After the delimitation, Patna Sahib has emerged as one of the pocket boroughs of the BJP because it succeeded in winning all previous three elections from here. BJP has put all efforts into ensuring the victory of party nominee Ravi Shankar Prasad besides holding the first-ever mega road show of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the capital city of Patna. Mr Prasad is going among the voters with development works done under the regime of the Modi government; on the other hand Congress nominee Anshul Avijit has full confidence that he will pass this political exam with the support of core voters of RJD, Congress and left parties.
