BJP been dominating Bastar Lok Sabha seat for the last 4 elections
Reportedly bjp MPs have been winning this seat for 20 years. Late bjp candidate in 1999 and known as the son of the soil of Bastar. Baliram Kashyap had defeated senior congress leader Mankuram Sodhi. After that, in the 2004 lok sabha elections, BJP's Baliram Kashyap defeated congress leader and late Bastar Tiger. Mahendra Karma was defeated by a margin of 54 thousand votes and won. After which, in the 2009 lok sabha elections, BJP's Baliram Kashyap once again defeated Mankuram Sodhi's son shankar Sodhi by a margin of 1 lakh votes, but in 2011, when he was an mp, Baliram Kashyap died due to deteriorating health.
Meanwhile in this way, Baliram Kashyap remained mp of Bastar lok sabha for three consecutive terms and in the 2011 lok sabha by-election, bjp gave ticket to his eldest son Dinesh Kashyap and Konta mla Kawasi Lakhma from congress became his opponent. Dinesh Kashyap defeated Kawasi Lakhma by a margin of 88 thousand votes and became the mp of Bastar.
After which, in the lok sabha elections held in 2014, bjp once again fielded Dinesh Kashyap and congress fielded Late. Late son of Mahendra Karma. Gave ticket to deepak Sharma. In this election also, BJP's Dinesh Kashyap defeated congress candidate deepak Karma by a margin of 1 lakh votes. However, in the 2019 lok sabha elections, there was a coup in Bastar lok sabha seat and in 2019, bjp gave ticket to Baiduram Kashyap, while congress fielded deepak Baij, mla of Chitrakot Assembly, in the lok sabha elections. deepak Baij of congress defeated Baiduram Kashyap of bjp by a margin of 38 thousand 982 votes in the 2019 lok sabha elections and became the mp of Bastar Lok Sabha.