BJP is on a good wicket in Sahajanwa assembly constituency due to the clout by its Hindutva icon Yogi Adityanath here. In 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP candidate from Gorakhpur parliamentary seat, Yogi Adityanath had secured a lead of 43956 votes over his nearest BSP rival Ram Bhual Nishad in the Sahajanwa assembly segment.