Pooja Pal is an Indian politician from the

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. She was the wife of then Allahabad West MLA Raju Pal who was gunned down in broad daylight after defeating Mohammad Ashraf in the 2004 elections for the seat. Subsequently, Mohammad Ashraf, who was named as the prime accused in the murder became the MLA. However, in the 2007 Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, Ashraf was defeated by Pooja Pal. Pooja Pal has also filed a request for a CBI investigation into the murder of Raju Pal. When she nominated herself as a

candidate from Chail in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, she mentioned her husband's name as Brijesh Verma, then her inter-caste marriage became public. She was elected on

ticket from Chail in the

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