Aligarh Election Result 2022: BJP's Mukta Raja wins
Aligarh election result 2022 Live updates: BJP candidate Mukta Raja has won from Aligarh seat by a margin of 12,786 votes. He defeated rival Samajwadi Party's candidate Zafar Alam. While Mukta secured 1,20,389 votes, the SP candidate pocketed 1,07,603 votes. BSP's Razia Khan finished third with 18,273 votes.
Aligarh Assembly seat falls under the Aligarh Lok Sabha seat which comprises five Assembly segments -- Khair, Barauli, Atrauli, Aligarh and Koil (all in Aligarh district). In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP's Satish Kumar Gautam won from here.
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Imtiaz, a former president of the AMU students' union, was slapped with an order barring him from staying in the district in the wake of anti-CAA agitation in the Aligarh Muslim University. The ban was imposed on Imtiaz on the basis of charges under the Gunda Act.
In 2017, Sanjeev Raja of Bharatiya Janata Party won the seat by defeating Zafar Aalam of Samajwadi Party with a margin of 15,440 votes.
Aligarh is said to be one of the highly polarised constituencies in UP which has 27.64 lakh registered voters. The seat witnessed a polling percentage of 60.49 per cent in the first phase on February 10, 2022. This was lower than 2017's poll percentage when 63.48 per cent polling was recorded.
