Gorakhpur/Patna: The Bharatiya Janata Party is staring at defeat in two key parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh -- Gorakhpur and Phulpur -- which were vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya after their entry into the Assembly in April, 2017.
Both seats were a prestige fight for the BJP. Gorakhpur has been held by Yogi Adityanath since 1998 – he was the youngest MP at 26 – and three times before that by his mentor Advaidyanath.
Phulpur is an extremely prominent Lok Sabha seat that the BJP had wrested only in 2014. It has been represented by Jawaharlal Nehru, his sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit and also former Prime Minister V P Singh.
The fate of the third parliamentary seat is Araria in Bihar, where too the BJP is trailing. The BJP is leading in Bhabua while RJD leads again in Jehanabad.
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