In 2019, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi retained her Rae Bareli seat, while her son Rahul Gandhi lost the long-held Amethi constituency to Union minister Smriti Irani.Defence minister Rajnath Singh won from Lucknow.The BSP won only one seat from this region in Ritesh Pandey, who bagged Ambedkarnagar Lok Sabha constituency.The SP scored a zilch.The BJP won 13 seats from the region, which includes the coveted Faizabad Lok Sabha seat, the epicentre of a Hindu reverie that drowned parts of the nation in a collective religious fervour after the Ram Temple consecration.Varanasi, represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha, is one of the 30 seats in the eastern part of the state.From this region, the BSP won five seats, while the SP won one, Azamgarh.Apna Dal (Sonelal) won two seats from here.The Bundelkhand region was swept in 2019 by the BJP, which won all four Lok Sabha seats of Jhansi, Banda, Hamirpur, and Jalaun-SC.The parched Bundelkhand region has been seeing the start of some irrigation projects and its residents getting safe drinking water.Expressways and new airports in different parts of the UP have narrowed the regional disparity the state has witnessed for a long time.
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