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Samajwadi Party's candidate Awadhesh Prasad Singh defeated Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) Lallu Singh in Faizabad in the Lok Sabha elections 2024 results announced on June 4th.
The BJP not only lost from Faizabad but faced defeats in five of the nine seats in the Ayodhya region of Uttar Pradesh.
The other four seats that BJP lost in the region include Sultanpur, where BJP candidate Maneka Gandhi was defeated by SP candidate Ram Bhual Nishad.
In Basti, SP candidate Ram Prasad Chaudhary also defeated BJP's two-time sitting MP Harish Dwivedi.
The BJP also lost from Ambedkar Nagar and Shrawasti.
The Ayodhya region was key to BJP's Hindutva plan, especially in Uttar Pradesh, where it could just win 33 of 80 seats in 2024 as against 62 seats in 2019.
The BJP's setbacks from Uttar Pradesh also include losing 9 of 12 seats in the Varanasi region.
In the 2019 general elections, the party won seven of these seats with its ally Apna Dal-Soneylal.
In 2024, the BJP won only three seats, including one won by ally Apna Dal-Soneylal.
The BJP lost Chandauli, Robertsganj, Ghazipur, Ghosi, Lalganj, Jaunpur, Machhlishahr, Azamgarh and Ballia.