Meerut (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Meerut, one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, is set to vote in the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 26. Voting is likely to take place on Meerut Lok Sabha seat. Watch the triangular contest between BJP, opposition India Bloc and Bahujan Samaj Party. The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Ramayan actor Arun Govil in place of three-time MP Rajendra Agarwal against Samajwadi Party's Sunita Verma, BSP's Devrat Kumar Sunita Verma and her husband Yogesh Verma, who were fielded from the Bahuja Samaj Party (BSP) in 2019. Was expelled from. Joined Samajwadi Party in 2021. Yogesh Verma was elected MLA twice on BSP ticket in 2007 and 2012, but lost as a SP candidate in the 2020 assembly elections. His wife, Sunita, became mayor in 2017. The BJP is banking on Arun Govil's popularity as the actor who played Ram in the hugely popular "Ramayana" series as well as his status as a local resident for its campaign strategy. Govil had previously campaigned for the Congress, but it took decades for him to enter active politics. Thanking Prime Minister Modi on getting the ticket from Meerut Lok Sabha constituency, Govil wrote in a post on I will try to fully live up to the trust of BJP and the expectations of the public in 2019. In the elections, Rajendra Aggarwal of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won with 586,184 votes, defeating Haji Mohammad Yakub of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). Similarly, in the 2014 elections, Rajendra Agarwal won by defeating BSP candidate Mohammad Shahid Akhlaq.