The campaigning for the fifth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections ended today. In this phase, 61 seats in 11 districts will go to polls on Sunday. The districts where elections are to be held include Amethi, Ayodhya, Bahraich, Barabanki, Chitrakoot, Gonda, Kaushambi, Pratapgarh, Prayagraj, Shravasti and Sultanpur. In these 61 seats, 693 candidates are trying their luck. However, the direct contest is between BJP, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress. Let us know from where these four parties have made candidates?
In 2017, out of the six seats in the district, the BJP won five and the SP had won one.
In 2017, two out of seven seats in the district were won by BJP-Apna Dal and independent candidates. Congress had won the Rampur Khas seat. Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya is once again in the fray on Kunda seat of the district, this time on the ticket of his party Jansatta Dal Loktantrik. Vinod Saroj, close to him and who won as an independent from Babaganj in 2017, is also in the fray this time on the ticket of Jansatta Dal Loktantrik.
Cabinet minister Siddharthnath Singh from Allahabad West seat of Prayagraj district, Nand Gopal Nandi from Allahabad South are once again in the fray. In 2017, out of 12 seats in the district, the BJP won eight and its ally Apna Dal won one. Two seats went to BSP and one seat went to SP.
This is the home district of Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya. Maurya is the candidate from Sirathu seat of the district this time. In 2017, the BJP had won all the three seats in the district.