Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, covers the rural part of Lucknow district and one assembly segment of Sitapur district. The constituency is reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled castes. 

For 14 years, Mohanlalganj was a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party with Reena Choudhary winning it twice (1998 and 1999), Jai Prakash in 2004 and Sushila Saroj in 2009. 

However, in 2014, the BJP sprung a surprise and won it for the third time in its history with Kaushal Kishore emerging victorious. He received 4.55 lakh votes against BSP's RK Chaudhary who got close to 3.1 lakh votes. Sushila Saroj, the sitting MP, was pushed to the third place with 2.42 lakh votes. 

This time, the BJP has again fielded Kaushal Kishore, an influential Dalit leader who served as a minister in Mulayam Singh Yadav's state government in 2003 as independent MLA. Kishore will face CL Verma of the BSP and his nearest rival of 2014 - RK Chaudhary who is now a Congress candidate. 

The parliamentary constituency comprises four assembly segments of Lucknow district and one assembly constituency of Sitapur district: Malihabad (SC), Bakshi Kaa Talab, Sarojini Nagar, Mohanlalganj (SC) (Lucknow district) and Sidhauli (SC) in Sitapur district. 

UP is facing a three-pronged battle between the BJP, the Congress and BSP-SP-RLD alliance. Under the alliance's seat-sharing formula, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is contesting on 38 Lok Sabha seats of the total 80 seats, Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party on 37 seats and the Chaudhary Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on three seats. The alliance has left two for Congress' Sonia Gandhi (Raebareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi). 

Fifth phase polls in UP 

The polling for 14 Lok Sabha seats in UP will be held in the fifth phase on May. The parliamentary constituencies going to polls in fifth phase are Dhaurahra, Sitapur, Mohanlalganj (SC), Lucknow, Raebareli, Amethi, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambi, Barabanki (SC), Ayodhya (earlier known as Faizabad), Bahraich (SC), Kaisarganj and Gonda. 

In 2014, the BJP won 12 of these 14 seats in the state. Only Amethi and Raebareli, traditional bastions of the Congress, were won by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi respectively.

There are 2.47 crore voters in the 14 parliamentary constituencies. This includes 1.32 crore male voters and 1.14 crore female voters. The count of voters in the age bracket of 18-19 years is 3.39 lakh, while the number of voters aged 80 years is 4.84 lakh.

The number of voting centres is 16,126; while there are as many as 28,702 polling booths.

The counting of votes of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be conducted on May 23.