BJP's Saket Misra, the son of PM Narendra Modi's former principal secretary and Ayodhya Ram Temple Construction Committee Chairman Nripendra Misra, lost the Lok Sabha election from Shrawasti in UP. Samajwadi Party's Ram Shiromani Verma won the seat by a margin of 76,673 votes. BJP also lost the Faizabad seat, which houses the Ram Temple.