Lok Sabha elections 2019: Voters choose poll boycott to protest lack of amenities

People of Sabar tribe in Purulia’s Bandwan area in West Bengal called for a boycott of Lok Sabha elections alleging unavailability of electricity in their houses.

As people voted on Thursday in 51 constituencies across 7 states, a few booths wore a deserted look as voters kept away to express resentment over alleged lack of basic amenities in a growing trend of boycott as means of protest,

In Rajasthan’s Bharatpur voters in Rahmanpura, Bajrang Vihar and Kauwa Ka Nangla areas also called for a boycott over alleged shortage of water and motorable roads. (HT Photo/ Representative Image)

People of Sabar tribe in Purulia’s Bandwan area in West Bengal called for a boycott of Lok Sabha elections alleging unavailability of electricity in their houses.

A villager said, “electricity department had said we would get free electricity but they later asked for ₹4000, how would we pay that amount”.

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In Rajasthan’s Bharatpur voters in Rahmanpura, Bajrang Vihar and Kauwa Ka Nangla areas also called for a boycott over alleged shortage of water and motorable roads.

At several booths in Chhattisgarh, which voted in first three phases, banners were seen urging people to boycott polls over the lack of basic amenities like drinking water and government apathy

Spme villagers of Balawas village under Hisar-1st block and Nalwa assembly segment of Hisar district, which goes to polls on May 12, have decided to boycott the Lok Sabha elections, alleging local administration and government apathy.

The villagers have begun staging dharnas and the locals say they will not allow any political party to come to the village for campaigning.

At several villages in UP’s Gorakhpur district, banners could be seen on main roads asking politicians who come seeking votes to keep away. All this to protest the government’s decision to divert the Rapti river that flows past their villages.

In Maharashtra Kolhapur constituency, which voted on April 23, several villagers kept away from the polls to protest lack of any work on the Dhamami dam, which was sanctioned in 1995.

In Tamil Nadu, villagers of Nagaraja Kandigai called for a boycott to protest pollution caused by the local sponge iron plant.

Constituency	Sitting MP
Bihar
Sitamarhi	Ram Kumar Sharma, RLSP
Madhubani	Chaudhary Hukumdev Narayan Yadav, BJP
Muzaffarpur	Ajay Nishad, BJP
Saran	Rajiv Pratap Rudy, BJP
Hajipur	Ramvilas Paswan, LJP
Jammu and Kashmir
Ladakh	Thupstan Chhewang, BJP
Anantnag	Seat is vacant (PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti quit after becoming CM of the state)
Madhya Pradesh
Tikamgarh	Virendra Kumar Khatik, BJP
Damoh	Prahalad Singh Patel, BJP
Khajuraho	Nagendra Singh, BJP
Satna	Ganesh Singh
Rewa	Janardan Mishra, BJP
Hoshangabad	Uday Pratap Singh
Betul	Jyoti Dhurve, BJP
Rajasthan
Ganganagar	Nihalchand Meghwal, BJP
Bikaner	Arun Ram Meghwal, BJP
Churu	Rahul Kaswan, BJP
Jhunjhunu	Santosh Ahlawat, BJP
Sikar	Sumedhanand Saraswati, BJP
Jaipur Rural	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, BJP
Jaipur	Ramcharan Bohara, BJP
Alwar	Chand Nath, BJP
Bharatpur	Bahadur Singh, BJP
Karauli-Dholpur	Manoj Rajoria, BJP
Dausa	Harish Chandra Meena, BJP
Nagaur	C R Choudhary, BJP

Constituency	Sitting MP
Jharkhand
Kodarma	Ravindra Kumar Ray, BJP
Ranchi	Ram Tahal Choudhary, BJP
Khunti	Kariya Munda, BJP
Hazaribagh	Jayant Sinha, BJP
Uttar Pradesh
Dharuhera	Rekha Verma, BJP
Sitapur	Rajesh Verma, BJP
Mohanlalganj	Kaushal Kishore, BJP
Lucknow	Rajnath Singh, BJP
Rae Bareli	Sonia Gandhi, Congress
Amethi	Rahul Gandhi, Congress
Banda	Bhairon Prasad Mishra, BJP
Fatehpur	Niranjan Jyoti, BJP
Kaushambi	Vinod Sonkar, BJP
Barabanki	Priyanka Singh Rawat, BJP
Faizabad	Lallu Singh, BJP
Bahraich	Savitri Bai Phule, BJP
Kaiserganj	Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, BJP
Gonda	Kirti Vardhan Singh, BJP
West Bengal
Bangaon	Mamata Thakur, Trinamool Congress
Barrackpur	Dinesh Trivedi, Trinamool Congress
Howrah	Prasun Banerjee, Trinamool Congress
Uluberia	Sajda Ahmed, Trinamool Congress
Sreerampur	Kalyan Banerjee, Trinamool Congress
Hooghly	Dr Ratna De, Trinamool Congress
Arambag	Aparupa Poddar, Trinamool Congress