MPs from Bundelkhand fail to get ministerial berths
Unlike eastern Uttar Pradesh which bagged a lion's share of ministerial berths in the Union Council of Ministers, MPs from Bundelkhand region of the state could not make it to the list of ministers.
All the four parliamentary constituencies in Bundelkhand region of the state gave their electoral verdict in favour of the BJP.
In Banda, BJP's RK Singh Patel defeated SP's Shyama Charan Gupta by a margin of over 58,000 votes, while in Hamirpur, it was Kunwar Pushpendra Singh Chandel of the BJP who emerged victorious defeating his nearest rival Dilip Kumar Singh of the BSP by more than 2.48 lakh votes.
Jhansi witnessed Anurag Sharma of the BJP winning by a margin of over 3.65 lakh votes.
In Jalaun, it was Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma of the BJP who defeated Ajay Singh (Pankaj) of the BSP by over 1.58 lakh votes.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, BJP stalwart Uma Bharti, who won from Jhansi, was made a Cabinet minister.
Bundelkhand is a hilly region spread over Uttar Pradesh and Madhya ...