UP Elections 2022: From Ayodhya to Kunda & Pratapgarh, Key Contests in These Six Seats
News 18As UP goes for polling for the fifth phase in 61 seats, several prominent candidates are in fray across districts including Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Barabanki and Bahraich. Pratapgarh Union minister Anupriya Patel’s mother and Apna Dal leader Krishna Patel is contesting from the Pratapgarh seat against BJP’s Rajendra Kumar. In 2019 bypolls, Rajkumar Pal of Apna Dal had won the seat by defeating SP’s Brijesh Verma while BJP’s Sangam Lal Gupta won the Lok Sabha polls that year. Sirathu In Sirathu seat of Uttar Pradesh, BJP’s Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya is facing Apna Dal Pallavi Patel, who is Union minister Anupriya Patel’s elder sister. Allahabad South In Allahabad South BJP minister Nand Gopal Gupta faces Congress’ Alpana Nishad and SP’s Raees Chandra and BSP’s Devendra Mishra Nagraha and AAP’s Altaf Ahmad.