Athar Jamal Lari was declared by the BSP as their opponent of Prime Minister Modi. Lari, a seasoned politician with a poor track record, leaves the Samajwadi Party and receives the BSP ticket.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face a Muslim opponent in the Varanasi seat of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as declared by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Tuesday. Athar Jamal Lari, a renegade leader of the Samajwadi Party, was named the BSP candidate for the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency by former Rajya Sabha MP Ghanshyam Chand Kharwar.
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Athar Jamal Lari, a seasoned politician who is roughly 66 years old, has run in two Lok Sabha and three assembly elections but hasn’t had much luck. Shortly before the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 2022, he became a member of the Samajwadi Party. Renowned in Purvanchal politics, Lari has rebelled against the Samajwadi Party and is currently running for Varanasi under the BSP banner.
Athar Jamal Lari is a native of Varanasi and has been involved in politics since 1980. He has worked briefly for a number of groups, including the Quami Ekta Dal, which was formerly led by the late Mukhtar Ansari, the Apna Dal, the Samajwadi Party, and the Janata Dal.
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Athar Jamal Lari participated in the first Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi in 1984 under the banner of the Janata Party. He received 50,329 votes, which was a little less than Shyamlal Yadav of the Congress party. In 2004, there were more efforts, starting with Sonelal Patel’s Apna Dal, where he received 93,228 votes but lost to Congressman Rajesh Kumar Mishra.
According to the article, Athar Jamal Lari also ran as a candidate for the Janata Dal in the 1991 and 1993 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for the Varanasi Cantt seat. In addition, she represented Mukhtar Ansari’s Quami Ekta Dal in the 2012 elections from Varanasi South.
The BSP’s nominee is reminiscent of Mayawati’s 2009 choice to nominate Mukhtar Ansari against BJP heavyweight Murli Manohar Joshi; that time, the saffron party prevailed. However, the approach did not work out well for Mayawati’s party.
The Congress-led I.N.D.I.A. alliance has again nominated Uttar Pradesh Congress Chief Ajay Rai for the Varanasi seat, while the BJP has again put PM Modi forward. The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha has chosen to withdraw transgender candidate Mahamandaleshwar Hemangi Sakhi’s candidacy, and they have advised other parties not to register candidates against the Prime Minister.
PM Modi has been representing the Varanasi seat in Lok Sabha since 2014 when he formed his first government at the Centre.