Ahead of counting of votes, candidates turn to divine blessings for victory

AGRA: With just hours left for the counting of votes for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the focus of the majority of the high profile candidates has shifted from voters to divine intervention for their success. Netas are making a beeline at places of worship in the temple town of Mathura to pray for their success and the day of the judgement arrives.


Be it BJP’s actor turned politician Hema Malini or Congress’s Raj Babbar, they have been visiting temples to seek the divine intervention.

Hema Malini, who represents the BJP of Mathura, took rounds of Giriraj hills on Tuesday night to seek blessings. Earlier, after the polling, she had offered prayers in Dwarikadhish temple.

Talking to TOI, Hema, said that she‘s confident about her victory and is eagerly waiting for results.

State Congress president and party’s candidate from Fatehpur Sikri, Raj Babbar, also visited Giriraj hills on Monday to take blessings of Lord Krishna. He made an unannounced and a secretive visit to Govardhan while he was going to Delhi.

On being asked about his chances of victory, Raj Babbar said that he had worked hard and is now waiting for the results.

RJD leader and former Bihar health minister, Tej Pratap Yadav, also reached Mathura on Wednesday and performed prayers at Shree Ji temple for the victory of his sister Meesa Bharti, who is contesting from Pataliputra, and others, including Jehanabad candidate, Chandraprakash Yadav, whom he considers as his bother.

Some other candidates including BJP’s SP Singh Baghel from Agra, had also earlier visited Vindhyavasini temple in Mirzapur and Baba Bholenath in Varanasi during the campaigning for party’s candidates. He said that he is confident about his victory, but it with a narrow margin.

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Raj Babbar has been fielded from Fatehpur Sikri against BJP’s Rajkumar Chahar and BSP’s Bhagwan Sharma. Babbar was initially nominated from Moradabad, but the party later changed his seat to Fatehpur Sikri. In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, Babbar lost Sikri to the BSP’s Seema Upadhyaya in a close contest by a margin of 9,936 votes.

Sitting MP Hema Malini is contesting against Rashtriya Lok Dal(RLD)’s Narendra Singh and Congress candidate Mahesh Pathak. Hema Malini contested the Lok Sabha elections for the first time in 2014, defeating RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary by over 3 lakh votes. However, UP state minister, SP Singh Baghel from the BJP from Agra is contesting against Congress candidate Preeta Harit and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) nominee Manoj Kumar Soni.

Meanwhile, the activists of Vishwa Hindu Mahasabha in Aligarh organised havan for the victory of BJP.