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Shivpal releases revised list of 7 poll candidates

PNS

State Samajwadi Party chief Shivpal Yadav announced a fresh list of seven candidates for the next Assembly elections on Monday. 

Earlier on December 10, the party had announced a list of 16 and candidates for seven Assembly seats were changed. The ruling party has so far announced 181 candidates against the total 403 seats in UP Assembly. 

In the fresh list, Rahul Pandey has been fielded in place of Virendra Solanki from Amanpur seat of Kasganj

while Subhash Pal has been replaced by Anis Mansoori at Bilgram seat of Hardoi. Vinod Pasi will replace Om Prakash Girhar from Khaga seat in Fatehpur.

The name of Virendra Singh Solanki was announced in the list released on December 10 for Amanpur seat but he was replaced by Rahul Pandey on Monday. Similar was the case in Khaga seat of Fatehpur seat where Om Prakash Singh Gihar was given party ticket but was replaced by Vinod Pasi.

The SP has denied ticket to its sitting MlA of Tiloi seat-Mayankeshwar Sharan and Jainul Hasan will be the candidate from this seat which is a segment of Amethi lok Sabha seat held by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. SP sources said Singh is all set to join the BJP and will also get a ticket from Tiloi.

Vimlesh Saroj will be the candidate from Jagdishpur seat of Amethi in place of Ajit Prasad. RP Niranjan would replace lakhan Singh Kushwaha in Madhavgarh seat and Anup Kumar Singh will contest in place of Vishapal Singh from Kalpi seat-both in Jalaun district.