The first Prime Minister of India and the notorious Uttar Pradesh don both represented Phulpur in the Lok Sabha. It was Nehru’s daughter Indira who would go door to door and hold street meetings everyday during campaigning. Mishra, who Mulayam Singh Yadav used to call “Chhote Lohia”, had finally won the seat in the 1969 bypoll as a Sanyukta Socialist Party nominee. “Even today we remember how Phulpur used to be the constituency of the first Prime Minister of India. “What did the Congress do in 50 years of its rule?” he asked, and then answered himself: “Nehru’s daughter Indira Gandhi gave us IFFCO in 1974 when she was Prime Minister.

Source: The Telegraph May 11, 2019 01:52 UTC