The Rajbhars, an OBC community from Eastern Uttar Pradesh, have fought three general elections and six state elections since 2004, but were yet to win a seat. This time, in alliance with the BJP, their party Suheldev Bahujan Samaj Party(SBSP) has won four out of the eight seats it contested. The party had put up a candidate against BSP heavyweight Mukhtar Ansari in Mau. The party’s candidate lost to Ansari by around 8,700 votes.
The party won the seats of Ajkara (Varanasi), Ramkola (Kushinagar), Jakahania and Zahorabad (Ghazipur). All the eight seats contested by the party are clustered and sandwiched between
