However, the upcoming 2017 assembly election to the seat will be a different ballgame altogether and is all set for keen contest among the BJP, SP and BSP. Congress will also try to be in the reckoning. In 2014 Lok Sabha general elections, the BJP candidate from Shahjahanpur parliamentary seat, Krishna Raj had had led over his nearest BSP rival Umed Singh Kashyap by a margin of 31058 votes in the Katra assembly segment.