Samajwadi Party MLA from Itwa in Sidhhartnagar district Mata Prasad Pandey was unanimously elected Speaker of the 16th Uttar Pradesh Assembly on 13 April 2012. Pandey was elected to serve as Speaker for the second time. He first held the post when Mulayam Singh headed the SP government from 2003 to 2007.
Pandey has been elected six times to the Assembly six times. He succeeded BSP's Sukhdeo Rajbhar, who was the Speaker in the 15th Assembly.
On the other hand Umar Ali Khan, son-in-law of the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid, Syed Ahmed Bukhari, filed his papers for the Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council) elections scheduled to be held on 26 April 2012. He is the eighth SP candidate for the polls for 13 seats. The other SP candidates include Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Revenue Minister Ambika Chaudhary, Rajendra Chaudhary, Madhu Gupta, Ram Sakal Gujar, Naresh Uttam and Vijay Kumar Yadav.
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