In the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections, the nomination process has been completed for 13 seats in Uttar Pradesh. Polling on these seats will be held on 13th of May. This also includes the important seat of Etawah, which is considered to be the stronghold of Samajwadi Party.

BJP has been winning this seat for the last two Lok Sabha elections and this time the party has once again nominated sitting MP Ram Shankar Katheria as its candidate. Jitendra Dohre from SP and former Hathras MP Sarika Singh Baghel from BSP are in the fray.

Akashvani correspondent reports, five assembly constituencies of three districts Etawah, Auraiya and Kanpur Dehat come under Etawah Lok Sabha constituency. This includes Etawah, Auraiya, Bharthana, Dibiyapur and Sikandra. There are a total of 18 lakh 27 thousand 781 voters in this parliamentary constituency.

These include 9 lakh 83 thousand 960 male voters and 8 lakh 43 thousand 780 female voters. Etawah got political recognition from the late Mulayam Singh Yadav, who was the head of the Samajwadi Party. He was born in Saifai village of Etawah.

Being the largest political family, Samajwadi Party has dominated the Etawah Lok Sabha seat. SP is the only party to win this seat three times in a row. SP had won from here consecutively in 1999, 2004 and 2009.

After that, Ashok Dohre of BJP in 2014 and Ramshankar Katheria of BJP in 2019 became MP from here.

BJP is trying to score a hattrick of victory on this seat by making Ramshankar Katheria its candidate. On the other hand, SP has fielded Jitendra Dohre to regain its seat.

Other hand, BSP candidate and former MP from Hathras, Sarika Singh Baghel is making the contest interesting. All parties have intensified campaigning in support of their candidates.