A bitter contest is on the cards in the 2017 assembly poll to Ayah Shah. The Samajwadi Party (SP) has nominated Rita Prajapati to contest the seat. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP candidate from the Fatehpur Lok Sabha constituency, Sadhavi Niranjan Jyoti, had secured a lead of 30367 votes over his nearest BSP rival Afzal Siddiqui in the Ayah Shah assembly segment.