Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest in the Uttar Pradesh election. He is likely to contest from either of these four seats; Gunnaur, Mainpuri Sadar, Chhibramau or Gopalpur. Akhilesh Yadav is the Lok Sabha MP from Azamgarh in eastern Uttar Pradesh and has never contest a state election. Earlier he had said he would not contest the polls and would prefer to focus on every seat in the state.