Waquar Hasan 

NEW DELHI – As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered massive victory in Uttar Pradesh, 35 Muslim candidates have won or are leading on Thursday till evening, shows the election commission’s website.

This is the 10 MLAs increase from the last tenure when 25 MLAs were Muslims in the Uttar Pradesh assembly .

All of these 35 Muslims, who won or are leading in 2022 elections, are candidates from Samajwadi Party and its allies Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD). Out of 35, 32 candidates are from the Samajwadi Party, two from RLD and one from SBSP. Among these candidates, 5 won and 30 are leading.

According to the Election Commission, 125 candidates, who are leading or won, are from SP alliance. Out of 125, 57 candidates from the SP alliance have won while 68 candidates are leading where the results were not declared.

Prominent Muslim candidates are jailed SP leader Azam Khan from Rampur, his son Abdullah Azzam Khan, Nahid Hasan, Abbas Ansari and Ghulam Mohammed.

Here is the name of candidates, their constituencies and the political parties they belong to. Clarion India gathered the data from the elections commission’s website.