Bulandshahr

Bulandshahr is a politically significant seat and has been in the limelight since PM Modi’s decision to launch his Lok Sabha campaign for a third term from this seat in January. With almost 18 lakh voters and a Muslim population of 22%, this seat remains a solid BJP stronghold and has bucked the trend of anti-incumbency. It remains one of the eight seats in Western UP’s 14 seats where BJP retained its position in 2019. BJP’s Bhola Singh is a popular MP here and managed to increase his vote share from around 54% in 2014 to 60% in 2019. The BSP is the second largest party here, coming a distant second in 2019 in alliance with the SP. The BJP is confident about winning this seat one more time. All the five assembly segments in Bulandshahr are held by the BJP.<br><br>Bulandhsahr was once a strong bastion of former UP CM and BJP leader Kalyan Singh, and the entire region has been a BJP stronghold since Kalyan Singh’s rise as a state-level politician. Lodh Rajputs, a community Kalyan Singh belonged to, form a sizeable chunk of the electorate here followed by a prominent Dalit population.<br><br>In January this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched development projects exceeding Rs 19,100 crore in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh. This includes inaugurating a 173-km double-line electrified section between New Khurja in Bulandshahr and New Rewari in Haryana on the dedicated freight corridor and new rail lines connecting Mathura-Palwal and Chipiyana Buzurg-Dadri sections. PM Modi also revealed several road development projects and inaugurated Indian Oil's Tundla-Gawaria pipeline, completed under budget and ahead of schedule at a length of 255 km.