Political circles in UP were agog with speculation that SP national general secretary Shivpal Yadav would contest it, but the SP sent him to Badaun (the seat of the then sitting MP Dharmendra Yadav which the BJP’s Sanghmitra Maurya won in 2019). After Badaun’s ticket to Shivpal, it was speculated that Akhilesh would contest Azamgarh and Kannauj.
The Delhi-Meerut Expressway has a speed limit of 100 kilometre per hour (kmph) and the officials of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said both vehicles were going at a speed of around 90-100kmph when the collision happened
Coaches Dharmendra Yadav and Santosh Birmole, physiotherapists Shikha Kedia and Dr Umesh along with video analyst Nitin Kumar are the others in isolation.