Polling for the Lok Sabha elections is set to begin. So, Atul Chaurasia and Manisha Pande have hit the ground, to bring you the most authentic voices on Another Election Show – starting from Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur.

Rampur – a bastion of the now-jailed Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan – is one of the 102 seats to go to polls in the first phase of the elections beginning on April 19. The constituency with 52 percent Muslim vote share, and 48 percent vote share of Hindus and others, has been a stronghold of the Congress, and then Azam Khan.

But after Khan’s conviction in four cases in October 2022, is the constituency again charting its own course? In the 2022 by-elections, the BJP’s Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi won the seat. Is he looking at a repeat win?

Meanwhile, the SP has fielded Mohibullah Nadvi, imam of a Delhi-based mosque, who has been unable to appeal to Khan’s supporters. The Bahujan Samaj Party’s candidate is Zeeshan Khan. Will it divide the Muslim votes?

Newslaundry spoke to the students of Rampur’s Raza PG College and advocate Junaidur Rahman about the undercurrents ahead of the polls, the local politics, and issues that matter the most.

How’s the table turning in Rampur? Watch.

0:00-2:16 : Precap
2:17-3:34: ❌No Ads, ✅just news
3:35- 3:54📍Rampur, UP
3:55- 4:32 Who is Azam Khan?
4:33-5:27 Introducing Rampur’s Raza PG College students & Adv. Junaidur Rahman
5:28-6:09 Candidates in Rampur’s constituency
6:10-9:29 How did BJP win in Rampur, UP in 2022?
9:30- 12:15 Farmers’ suicide, paper leaks, unemployment
12:16- 14:13 Are people voting for MP or PM?
14:14- 15:46 On women’s safety and paper leaks.
15:47- 16:22 Data on paper leaks
16:23- 20:20 Is BJP better than Samajwadi Party?
20:21- 20:42 Data on unemployment amongst youth
20:43- 21:24 Why do young leaders matter?
21:25- 23:00 Inflation and, price hike
23:01- 27:21 On Govt schemes, and rations
27:22- 28:46 On Education and Vocational education schemes
28:47- 29:27 On Ayushman Yojna
29:28- 29:57 On Free Ration and inequality
29:58-32:26 On Ram Mandir
32:27-34:10 Is TV News reliable?
34:11- 35:09 Why do YouTube channels like Dhruv Rathee matters?
35:10- 36:46 On TV News and portrayal of opposition
36:47- 38:08 Power our election coverage
38:09- 39:33 Gist of what main issues were raised by the students of Rampur
39:34-41:05 What’s next?

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