Azad Samaj Party chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad will contest the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls from the Gorakhpur seat, squaring off against UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Chandra Shekhar Aazad has said the Azad Samaj Party would go solo in the Uttar Pradesh polls. This came hours after he had confirmed an alliance between his party and the Samajwadi Party.

On January 18, the Azad Samaj Party had released its first list of 33 candidates for the initial phases of polling in the UP assembly election. At the time, the party had played it close to the chest where Chandra Shekhar Aazad would be contesting from