Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel: Looking For A Hat-Trick Win In Hamirpur (image: facebook.com/pschandelmahoba)
Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel is looking for a hat-trick in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The sitting BJP MP will contest from Uttar Pradesh”s Hamirpur parliamentary constituency.
A resident of Mahoba district, 50-year-old Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel has been associated with the BJP since his student days. In his debut Lok Sabha election in 2014, Kunwar Pushpendra Singh defeated Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate Vishambhar Prasad Nishad by a margin of 2,66,788 votes. The SP and Congress candidates came in third and fourth positions, respectively.
In the 2019 elections, he defeated Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) candidate Dilip Kumar Singh by a margin of 2,48,652 votes. Meanwhile, Congress came in a distant third. Even the regional Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal (SP-BSP-RLD) alliance, which focuses on anti-incumbency and caste arithmetic, could not oust the sitting BJP MP.
During his term as a parliamentarian, Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel served as a member of various committees. He currently serves as a member of the standing committee on external affairs, and the rules committee, and the consultative committee member on the Ministry of Defence.
Last year, during the Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha, the Hamirpur MP demanded the creation of a new Bundelkhand state by separating its parts from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Bundelkhand should be made a separate state for its development, he said in parliament. Hamirpur is another drought-afflicted region in Bundelkhand. The demand for separate statehood has been a long-cherished dream for the people of the region, and it still remains unfulfilled.
From 1991 to 1998, the BJP held supremacy over the Hamirpur Lok Sabha seat. After that, from 1999 to 2019, Hamirpur gave chances to the BSP and the BJP to represent the constituency twice and the Samajwadi Party once between 1999 and 2019.
It was a surprising move when the BJP nominated him at first in the 2014 elections, but when the party chooses him for the third time, it reflects the leadership”s faith in the candidate.
