| 1. Pooja Shukla became a member of the Samajwadi Party in February 2022. |
| 2. In 2017, she notably protested by waving a black flag at the motorcade of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. |
| 3. Pooja Shukla is recognized for her involvement in demonstrations against the policies of the BJP government. |
| 4. Akhilesh Yadav selected Pooja Shukla as the Lucknow North candidate for the Uttar Pradesh assembly election. |
| 5. She joined the Samajwadi Party on 2 February 2022 in the presence of Akhilesh Yadav ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly election. |
| 6. On 7 June 2017, she made headlines for the first time when she, along with ten others, waved the black flag at the motorcade of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath when he was on his way to Lucknow University, where he had to take part in ‘Hindi Swaraj Diwas’ event. The next day, she was arrested and sent to jail, where she spent one month. |
| 7. After she was released from jail, she met Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and became the face of the Samajwadi Students Federation. |
| 8. Pooja Shukla is often termed as the firebrand youth leader of the Samajwadi Party. |
| 9. In 2020, she was arrested from Bell Tower in Lucknow, where she was protesting against the CAA and NRC bills. |
