Uttar Pradesh gets 34 Muslim MLAs this time, most from Akhilesh Yadav's party

So far, the highest number of Muslim MLAs in the UP Assembly has been 69 in the 2012-2017 term. Here is the list of the Muslim MLAs who reached the house this time.

Uttar Pradesh has voted for 34 Muslim candidates this election season who will now be members of the 18th legislative assembly. A majority of Muslim MLAs come from West UP. Twenty-one Muslim candidates from the western part of the state have been elected, while six are from Central UP and seven from Purvanchal. In terms of party-wise distribution, of tjhe 34, 32 are from the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party and two are from the Rashtriya Lok Dal.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) won 125 seats in the 403-member Uttar Pradesh assembly while the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies won 273 seats. (File)

The two Muslim MLAs of RLD are Ghulam Mohammad from Siwalkhas and Ashraf Ali from Thana Bhawan. Among these Muslim MLAs, Alambadi from Nizamabad will be the oldest leader to join the state assembly while Abbas Ansari from Mau seat will be the newest member.

So far, the highest number of Muslim MLAs in the UP Assembly has been 69 in the 2012-2017 term. 45 MLAs of these belonged to the Samajwadi Party at that time, according to reports. In 1991, the state assembly reportedly saw the lowest figure when only 17 Muslim MLAs were elected.

In the 2022 state elections, Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party gave tickets to 88 Muslim leaders, according to reports, whereas the Samajwadi Party had fielded 64 Muslim candidates. MP Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) had fielded Muslim candidates in more than 60 seats.

Muslim voters are believed to play a decisive role in 143 of 403 assembly seats in UP. In 73 constuencies, the Muslim population is between 35 and 50 per cent.

Here is the list of the Muslim MLAs who reached the house this time:

Seat	Winner	Party
Amroha	Mehboob Ali	SP
Chamrauwa	Naseer Ahmed Khan	SP
Gopalpur	Nafees Ahmed	SP
Thana	Bhawan Ashraf Ali Khan	RLD
Swar	Mohd.Abdullah Azam Khan	SP
Sisamau	Haji Irfan Solanki	SP
Sikandarpur	Ziauddin Rizvi	SP
Sambhal	Iqbal Mahmud	SP
Rampur	Mo.Azam Khan	SP
Patiali	Nadira Sultan	SP
Nizamabad	Alam Badi	SP
Moradabad Rural	Mo.Nasir	SP
Mohammadabad	Suhaib alias Mannu Ansari	SP
Mau	Abbas Ansari	SBSP
Matera	Maria Shah	SP
Kundarki	Zia ur Rahman	SP
Kanth	Kamal Akhtar	SP
Kanpur Cantt.	Mohd. Hassan	SP
Lucknow West	Armaan Khan	SP
Bhadohi	Zahid	SP
Issauli	Mohammad Tahir Khan	SP
Baheri	Ataur Rahman	SP
Kithor	Shahid Manzoor	SP
Meerut	Rafiq Ansari	SP
Najibabad	Tasleem Ahmed	SP
Ramnagar	Farid Mahfouz Kidwai	SP
Thakurdwara	Nawab Jan	SP
Dumariaganj	Sayyida Khatoon	SP
Saharanpur	Ashu Malik	SP
Siwalkhas	Ghulam Mohammad	RLD
Bilari	Mohd Faheem	SP
Bhojipura	Shahjil Islam Ansari	SP
Behat	Umar Ali Khan	SP
Kairana	Nahid Hassan	SP