Atrauli Assembly Seat: A Legacy of Political Dominance in Uttar Pradesh

The Atrauli assembly seat in the Braj region is one of the hottest seats in UP. Atrauli seat has assembly number 73 and is part of the Aligarh Lok Sabha constituency. Atrauli assembly seat has been held by former chief minister Kalyan Singh or a member of his family since 1967. Since 1967, the seat has gone to someone else only 2 times. This seat was won once by Congress in 1980 and once by SP in 2012. Before Atrauli, Kalyan Singh remained MLA continuously. Then his daughter-in-law Premlata Devi was elected MLA and now his grandson Sandeep Singh is MLA from Atrauli. Kalyan Singh or any member of his family has won every time he has contested from Atrauli seat on a BJP ticket. Know the story of the political history of Atrauli seat and the political equations to be formed here in the UP assembly elections 2027. In 1991, Kalyan Singh of BJP and Anwar Khan of Congress had a re-contest between Kalyan Singh of Congress. In this election, Ram Kalyan Singh defeated Kalyan Singh by a huge margin of 58,263 votes while Anwar Khan got 31,240 votes.