Firozabad Lok Sabha constituency, one of the 80 in Uttar Pradesh, is one of the seven Lok Sabha seats in the state which the BJP and its allies failed to win in the 2014 General Elections. Firozabad was won by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's kin Akshay, the son of SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav.
Ram Gopal Yadav is the cousin of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Akhilesh Yadav had also contested from here in 2009 but did not retain it as he also won from Kannauj. The Samajwadi Party, however, lost the seat after Congress' Raj Babbar defeated Yadav's wife Dimple in the by-election.
While Raj Babbar shifted his base to Fatehpur Sikri in 2014, Akshay Yadav was able to withstand the Modi wave and defeated BJP's SP Singh Baghel with a margin of over 86,000 votes.
While the BJP has fielded a fresh candidate - Chandra Sen Jadun - from here, Akshay Yadav's main challenge is his estranged uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav.
Shivpal, who lost to his nephew Akhilesh Yadav the battle of control over the party, has now formed a new outfit - Pragateesheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) - and is fighting it out with his nephew, Ram Gopal Yadav son Akshay Yadav for the Firozabad seat. The Congress has not fielded a candidate from here as part of its announcement not to contest against Mulayam-Akhilesh family members.
Akshay also has the support of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as part of the SP-BSP-RLD alliance in the state.
The seat was reserved for scheduled caste candidates from 1967 to 2008 and was made unreserved following 2008 delimitation exercise. From 1991 to 1999, it was held by BJP's Prabhu Dayal Katheria who lost to Ram Jilal Suman of the SP. Ram Jilal Suman won the seat for two terms until it was made an unreserved seat.
The Parliamentary constituency comprises five legislative assembly segments - Tundla, Jasrana, Firozabad, Shikohabad and Sirsaganj.
UP is facing a three-pronged battle between the BJP, the Congress and BSP-SP-RLD alliance. Under the alliance's seat-sharing formula, the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is contesting on 38 Lok Sabha seats of the total 80 seats, Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party on 37 seats and the Chaudhary Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on three seats. The alliance has left two for Congress' Sonia Gandhi (Raebareli) and Rahul Gandhi (Amethi).
The polling for the third phase is to be held on April 23 for ten Lok Sabha seats in the Rohilkhand region of Uttar Pradesh. The results of the Lok Sabha election 2019 will be declared on May 23.
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