Agra (Uttar Pradesh): The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) led by Asaduddin Owaisi has fielded Mohammed Idrees Ali to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Fatehpur Sikri parliamentary seat.
Mohammad Idrees Ali is president of AIMIM unit of Agra district in Uttar Pradesh.
Mohammad Idress Ali is expected to fight the 2019 elections against Seema Upadhyay of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Choudhary Babulal of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Choudhary Babulal is the sitting MP of the seat. He had defeated Seema Upadhyay of BSP in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Congress is likely to field Uttar Pradesh State Congress President Raj Babbar from Fatehpur Sikri.
Fathehpur Sikri parliamentary constituency comprises of five assembly seats including Agra Rural, Fatehpur Sikri, Kheragarh, Fatehabad and Bah - all in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh.
As per 2012 record, the constituency has a total of 15,17,983 voters.
In 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Choudhary Babulal of the BJP had bagged 4,26,589 votes, defeating Seema Upadhyay of BSP who got 2,53,483 votes and Rani Pakshalika Singh of Samajwadi Party (SP) who got 2,13,397 votes.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have decided to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha elections forming an alliance.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is based in Hyderabad. It had contested the 2017 state elections in Uttar Pradesh but could not win any seat. The AIMIM Uttar Pradesh had earlier also contested local body elections and was able to win in over a dozen places.
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