UP Election 2022 Phase 2 Voting: Key candidates whose fate will be decided today

There are 586 candidates in the fray in this phase with as many as five Ministers.

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh on Monday (February 14, 2022) morning started voting for 55 Assembly seats spread across nine districts of the state.

This is the second phase of the seven-phase Assembly elections in the state.

As many as 586 candidates are in the fray in this phase with the seats spread across Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Amroha, Budaun, Bareilly and Shahjahanpur.

UP Assembly 2022 polls: Key faces contesting in phase 2 on Feb 14

Suresh Kumar Khanna:  

Contesting Constituency: Shahjahanpur 
Party: Bhartiya Janata Party 
Current Cabinet Minister for Finance, Parliamentary Affairs, Medical Education 

Gulab Devi: 

Contesting Constituency: Chandausi 
Party: Bhartiya Janata Party 
Current State minister for Secondary Education.

Baldev Singh Aulakh:

Contesting Constituency: Bilaspur 
Party: Bhartiya Janata Party 
Current State Minister for Jal Shakti.

Mahesh Chandra Gupta:  

Contesting Constituency: Badaun  
Party: Bhartiya Janata Party 
Current State Minister for Urban Development, Overall Urban Development, Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation. 

Chhatrapal Gangwar:  

Contesting Constituency: Baheri 
Party: BJP 
Current Minister of State for Revenue.

Haider Ali Khan:   

Contesting Constituency: Suar 
Party: Apna Dal (S)

Dharam Singh Saini:  

Contesting Constituency: Nakur 
Party: Samajwadi Party 

Azam Khan:  

Contesting Constituency: Rampur 
Party: Samajwadi Party 

Abdullah Azam Khan:  

Contesting Constituency: Suar 
Party: Samajwadi Party 

Dharmpal Singh:  

Contesting Constituency: Aonla 
Party: Bhartiya Janata Party 

Kartik Rana:  

Contesting Constituency: Deoband 
Party: Samajwadi Party 

Swami Omvesh:  

Contesting Constituency: Chandpur 
Party: Samajwadi Party 

Munshi Rampal:  

Contesting Constituency: Nehtaur 
Party: Rashtriya Lok Dal

Kamal Akhtar: 

Contesting Constituency: Kanth 
Party: Samajwadi Party 

Ziaur Rehman Barq:  

Contesting Constituency: Kundarki 
Party: Samajwadi Party 

Mehboob Ali:  

Contesting Constituency: Amroha 
Party: Samajwadi Party 

Bhagwat Saran Gangwar:  

Contesting Constituency: Nawabganj 
Party: Samajwadi Party 

Earlier in 2017, of the 55 seats going to polls in this phase, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had bagged 38, while the Samajwadi Party (SP) had won 13 and the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) could only get two each.