Top Candidates To Watch Out For In Uttar Pradesh Election 2022

Keshav Prasad Maurya, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, ran for the Sirathu assembly seat in the Kaushambi district in the recently concluded UP elections 2022. In 2012, Maurya won the Sirathu seat for the first time for the BJP. (Source: Getty Images)

The Gorakhpur Urban seat was contested by Azad Samaj Party (ASP) president and Bhim Army supremo Chandrashekhar Azad against incumbent CM Yogi Adityanath in the UP elections 2022.(Source: Getty Images)

Yogi Adityanath, the BJP's Gorakhpur candidate, is the district's second Chief Ministerial candidate after Tribhuvan Narayan Singh, who lost in 1971. Adityanath is from Gorakhpur. He has been the MP for Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency since 1998 until he was appointed chief minister in 2017.(Source: Getty Images)

Former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav ran in his first Assembly election from the Karhal constituency in Mainpuri district. Akhilesh Yadav is the Member of Parliament for Azamgarh. The Karhal Assembly seat is part of the Mainpuri parliamentary constituency, which is held by Mulayam Singh Yadav, the party's founder.(Source: Getty Images)

The Samajwadi Party has fielded Azam Khan, who is now imprisoned, from his customary Rampur seat. Khan, a Rampur MP, has been imprisoned in Sitapur since February 2020 on charges of land grabbing and other offences. However, Allahabad High Court on Tuesday granted him bail in connection with a land grabbing case. In the 2017 elections, Azam Khan won the Rampur assembly seat with more than 47% of the vote. In 2019, he was elected to the Lok Sabha. (Source: Getty Images)

In the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Congress party has fielded actor-model Archana Gautam from the Hastinapur seat. Gautam joined the Congress in November of last year, following a brief career in acting in films like as Great Grand Masti and Haseena Parker.(Source: Instagram/archanagautamm)

Asha Singh, the mother of the 2017 Unnao rape victim, is one of the candidates running on a Congress ticket in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.(Source: File Photo)