Elections 2019: Bahuguna's legacy, M M Joshi's shadow loom over Allahabad

Joshi still holds a place in the city's heart, mind and Brahmin voters in the region harbour a grudge over the 'raw deal' he got from the BJP

The legacy of Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna contextualises the discourse of Rita Bahuguna Joshi and the shadow of Murli Manohar Joshi looms uneasily over the electoral politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Allahabad, that votes on May 12. Rita Joshi is the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from this prestigious constituency that had elected her father, Hemwati Nandan in 1971 while Joshi represented it without a break from 1996 to 2004.

Bahuguna senior’s relationship with his parent party, the Congress, might have been fitful but he morphed into a leader in his own right through the years when he was the