Cong-SP-BSP fighting to be runner-up in Saharanpur: BJP

Saharanpur is one of the eight Lok Sabha seats that go to poll on Thursday in the first phase of 2019 general elections. The contest is tripartite, between BJP, SP-BSP Mahagathbandhan and the Congress. The seat has five assembly segments under it, including the Muslim-dominated Deoband. Sitting BJP MLA Brijesh Singh had wrested this seat against demographic odds in 2017 and he believes the Congress and the BSP-SP combine are contesting for the second and the third positions and that the saffron party would better its margin of victory even more than last time in 2014.