... also has the unique distinction of being the only major party to field two illiterate candidates, both women; one, Budhiya from Jyotiba Phule Nagar's Hasanpur constituency and the other, 65-year-old Kalawati from Ghazipur's Zamania constituency.

Adalat Singh Yadav, 55, the Rashtriya Lok Manch candidate in Zamania, is a farmer although his first name means court of law. He has been in politics for more than a decade and once contested on a Rashtriya Janata Dal ticket. His maternal uncle Halkani ...

... Barhaj, Atrauliya, Gopalpur, Sagri, Mubarakpur, Azamgarh, Nizamabad, Phoolpur-Pawai, Didarganj, Madhuban, Ghosi, Mau, Rasara, Sikanderpur, Phephana, Ballia Nagar, Bansdih, Bairia, Ghazipur, Jangipur, Zahoorabad, Mohammadabad, and Zamania.

Kalawati Bind (Zamania, Ghazipur district), a former village pradhan, is in jail in connection with a case of lynching a policeman in January 2011. She was part of a crowd which clashed with the police over the arrest of a local youth.