Information received from sourcesSaharanpur, Former sugarcane and sugar mill minister Suresh Rana can be the face of BJP from the country's number one Saharanpur Lok Sabha seat. According to information received from reliable sources this evening, BJP's political strategist is considering Suresh Rana as a strong and winning candidate. No candidate was announced from Saharanpur in the first list of BJP. In this seat considered difficult for BJP, its candidate Raghav Lakhanpal Sharma had lost in the last elections by a margin of 22 thousand 417 votes. This too when there were two strong Muslim candidates on this seat with 39 percent Muslim voters. BSP's winning candidate Fazalur Rehman Qureshi had received 5 lakh 14 thousand 139 votes and Congress candidate Imran Masood had received 2 lakh 7 thousand 68 votes. This time Fazalur Rehman Qureshi is not contesting the elections. He is unofficially in SP and Saharanpur seat has gone to Congress in SP-Congress alliance whose candidate will be Imran Masood. Who had taken 4 lakh 7 thousand 909 votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. According to experts, after the candidature of Imran Masood came forward, the BJP high command became alert and cautious about the selection of its candidate. For this reason the party did not declare the name of the candidate here in the first phase. Suresh Rana had emerged as a big personality of Hindutva during the Jat Muslim riots in Muzaffarnagar in 2013. The then Akhilesh Yadav government had harassed him a lot and arrested him and detained him in Rasuka.
According to strategists, with Suresh Rana being made the candidate from Saharanpur seat, BJP will get outright support from Rajputs in the entire West. However, due to many reasons the Rajputs of this entire area seem unhappy. If an influential Rajput BJP candidate is made on Saharanpur seat, then the chances of victory may also increase in the same proportion. According to unbiased people, even in this situation the competition will be very tough. Anyone can win. The morale of Imran Masood, who is contesting elections for the third consecutive time, is also very high. The SP-Congress agreement has also given them strength.