2007 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election

Background

Schedule

• Phase 1 : 2007-04-07
• Phase 2 : 2007-04-13
• Phase 3 : 2007-04-18
• Phase 4 : 2007-04-23
• Phase 5 : 2007-04-28
• Phase 6 : 2007-05-03
• Phase 7 : 2007-05-08

  Parties

List of winners

Criminalisation in the U.P. 2007 elections

1. Bahujan Samaj Party : 36.27%
2. Samajwadi Party : 27.01%
3. Bharatiya Janata Party : 23.05%
4. Indian National Congress : 21.60%

Alleged and convicted criminal-politicians who won

Samajwadi Party

• Mukhtar Ansari, : won as from Mau, while he was in Jhansi jail, facing charges in the murder of BJP ganglord-MLA from Ghazipur, Krishnanand Rai. His brother Afzal Ansari became the Lok Sabha MP from Ghazipur, after Krishnanand Rai was killed, and is also in jail for the murder, which was apparently executed by the Munna Bajrangi gang which is known to be close to the Ansari's. Mukhtar is named in 29 criminal cases, but is close to Mulayam Singh Yadav, and the Samajwadi Party did not put up a candidate against him. He also is said to be close to Sonia Gandhi's Indian National Congress party, who put up only a dummy candidate, Gopal, against him; Gopal garnered only three thousand votes and lost his deposit. A large faction of the Mau Congress executive committee members had resigned en masse to protest against choosing such a dummy candidate.

• Raghuraj Pratap Singh : alias Raja Bhaiyya, with 35 criminal cases filed against him. Raja Bhaiyya is from the princely family of Kunda. A skull found in a palace pond allegedly belongs to scooterist Santosh Misra who was guilty of daring to overtake his convoy. He won as an independent from Kunda with an overwhelming margin of 53,000 votes over Shiv Prakash Mishra of the BSP.
• Mukhtar Ansari's eldest brother Sibakatullah Ansari : won from Mohammadabad, which used to be the constituency for the slain BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai. Shibakatullah defeated Krishnanand's wife Alka Rai, who was standing on a platform of seeking justice for the murder of her husband, apparently by the Ansari's
• Chandrabhadra Singh alias Sonu, from Issauli in Sultanpur district, is accused, along with seven others, in the murder of the gangster-Saint Gyaneshwar in Allahabad. After Mayawati's accession to power, Chandrabhadra was arrested as one of her first directives

  Bahujan Samaj Party

• Badshah Singh : Don from Maudaha, is facing six criminal charges, including attempted murder, extortion, and kidnapping. Won at Maudaha by defeating Apni Chiraiya Prajapati of the Samajwadi Party by a margin of 17 thousand votes. Currently a Minister of State in the Mayawati cabinet.
• Anand Sen Yadav, : Son of BSP gangster Member of Parliament Mitra Sen Yadav. Anand, who is in Jail facing over 12 cases including murder and extortion, won from Milkipur, and has been appointed Minister of State in the Mayawati cabinet.
• Daddan or Daddan Misra, from Bhinga. According to his election affidavit, Daddan has cases registered under IPC 147, 148, 199, 448, 453, 323, 427, 511;
• Jamuna Nishad from Pipraich
• Avadhpal Singh Yadav, won from Aliganj and is currently Minister of State.
• Jayant Kumar Singh from Phephna, Vidhan Sabha Ballia.
• Shazil Islam Ansari : won from Bhojipura, and appointed a minister of state in Maya cabinet.

Rashtriya Parivartan Dal

• D. P. Yadav, mafia don and erstwhile liquor baron from Western U.P. : Scraped through from Sahaswan, with a 109-vote margin over the Samajwadi Party incumbent Omkar Singh
• D. P. Yadav's wife Umlesh Yadav won more handily from Bisauli, defeating incumbent Samajwadi Party legislator Yogendra Singh Kunnu with a margin of 13,400 votes.

  Alleged and convicted criminal-politicians who lost

Rashtriya Lok Dal

• Chhotelal Vishwakarma of Rashtriya Lok Dal, with 24 cases against him, lost from Gangapur in Varanasi District. He polled only two thousand votes and lost his deposit. Surendra Singh Patel of the Samajwadi Party won from this constituency with a lead of ten thousand votes over Neel Ratan Patel of Apna Dal.

  Apna Dal/Bharatiya Janata Party

• Pawan Pandey, who has 63 criminal cases pending against him lost in Akbarpur, trailing the winner Ram Achal Rajbhar of Bahujan Samaj Party by nearly twelve thousand votes.
• Abhay Singh, a criminal-politician in jail charged with several murder cases against him, fielded his wife Sarita Singh on Apna Dal ticket from Bikapur seat in Faizabad district. At one point, he conducted a meeting with the sector-in-charge inside the jail. Abhay Singh has also been accused of making threatening calls to voters from inside the Faizabad jail. While Sarita Singh polled forty thousand votes, she came third, trailing the winner Jitendra Kumar Bablu Bhaiya by 13 thousand votes.

Election result

Defections

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Rainbow coalition