Didarganj assembly constituency has Kamalkant of the Samajwadi Party (SP) taking on Krishna Murari Vishwakarma of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bhupendra Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Avadhesh Singh of the Indian National Congress (INC), and Rashmi Vishwakarma of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) this year in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Sukhdev Rajbhar of the BSP had won the Didarganj seat in 2017 when the BJP swept Uttar Pradesh winning 312 of UP’s 403 assembly seats. Rajbhar had beaten his closest rival Adil Sheikh by over 3,645 votes. Sheikh had contested that election on a SP ticket.
In 2012, the seat was won by Adil Sheikh of the SP.
Didarganj falls under the Azamgarh district and the Lalganj Lok Sabha constituency, which is made up of five assembly seats.
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Sangeeta Azad of the Bahujan Samaj Party represented Lalganj as a member of Parliament in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Azad defeated Neelam Sonker from the BJP with a margin of 1,61,597 votes.
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The Didarganj assembly constituency will vote in the seventh phase and the last round of the Uttar Pradesh elections on March 7, 2022, along with 53 other constituencies in 9 districts.
Results will be declared on March 10, along with those for elections in four other states, including neighbouring Uttarakhand.
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Quick facts about the Didarganj Assembly seat-
Name of the assembly constituency, district: Didarganj, Azamgarh
Polling date: March 7, 2022
Phase: 7
Sitting MLA, party: Sukhdev Rajbhar, BSP
Key candidates, party in 2022: Bhupendra Singh (BSP), Krishna Murari Vishwakarma (BJP), Kamalkant (SP)
Winning candidate, party in 2017: Sukhdev Rajbhar, BSP
Runner-up name, party 2017: Adil Sheikh, SP
Winning margin in 2017: 3,645
Top 3 candidates 2017: Sukhdev Rajbhar (BSP), Adil Sheikh (SP), Krishna Murari (BJP)
Top 3 candidates 2012: Adil Sheikh (SP), Sukhdev Rajbhar (BSP), Bhupendra (RUC)
Lok Sabha constituency: Lalganj
