LUCKNOW, March 16 -- Voters of Lucknow and Mohanlalganj will use their suffrage in the fifth of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls on May 20. Two-time sitting MP from Lucknow and defence minister Rajnath Singh is in a direct contest with the INDIA alliance candidate Ravidas Mehrotra, who is the Samajwadi Party MLA from Lucknow Central assembly seat.

Singh will be contesting to ensure his third consecutive victory from the prestigious parliamentary constituency which was represented by the late PM Atal Behari Vajpayee five times from 1991 to 2004.

Earlier, in 2014 general election, Rajnath Singh had defeated Rita Bahuguna Joshi who was the Congress candidate at the time. In the 2019 polls, Singh had defeated Samajwadi Party candidate Poonam...